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'''''Donald Trump''''' is the [[English Wikipedia]] article (not Simple English Wikipedia) about [[Donald Trump]], the 45th [[President of the United States]]. The article is a [[biography]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://slate.com/technology/2019/05/donald-trump-wikipedia-page.html|title=Donald Trump's Wikipedia Entry Is a War Zone|first=Aaron|last=Mak|date=May 28, 2019|website=Slate.}}</ref> of him that was created on January 9, 2004. The article was first protected on December 16, 2006 due to [[vandalism]] from [[IP address]] at the time. The article was first extended-confirmed protected on November 9, 2016 due to vandalism from auto-confirmed users at the time. The article first exceeded 500,000 bytes on October 7, 2020.[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?date-range-to=2020-10-07&tagfilter=&title=Donald_Trump&action=history] The article has been indefinitely extended-confirmed protected.
==Media coverage==
The article has received media coverage from multiple sources. In the early stages of the [[2016 United States presidential election]], ''[[The New York Observer]]'' reported that Wikipedia's article on [[Donald Trump]] was the busiest of the 2016 U.S. presidential candidates.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://observer.com/2016/01/donald-trumps-wikipedia-page-is-the-busiest-of-the-cadidates/|title=Donald Trump’s Wikipedia Page Is the Busiest of the Cadidates|first=Brady|last=Dale|date=January 22, 2016|work=Observer}}</ref> The ''[[The New York Times]]'' noted that the article usually attracted more views than his Republican rivals.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/us/politics/wikipedia-donald-trump-2016-election.html|title=On Wikipedia, Donald Trump Reigns and Facts Are Open to Debate|first=Jeremy B.|last=Merrill|date=February 1, 2016|work=The New York Times}}</ref> In September 2016, ''[[Business Insider]]'' reported that the article subject was one of the 29 most controversial people on Wikipedia,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/most-controversial-people-on-wikipedia-2016-9?r=US&IR=T|title=The 29 most controversial people on Wikipedia — including Donald Trump, Michael Jackson, and Albert Einstein|first=Nathan|last=McAlone|date=September 25, 2016|work=Business Insider}}</ref> and the following month ''The New York Observer'' reported that the article entry was bulkier than either the articles on [[George W. Bush]] and [[Barack Obama]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://observer.com/2016/10/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-wikipedia/|title=Donald Trump Has a Bulkier Wikipedia Entry Than Either Presidents Bush or Obama|first=Brady|last=Dale|date=October 12, 2016|work=Observer}}</ref> while ''[[The Washington Post]]'' reported that the article had more than three times the number of changes than [[Hillary Clinton]] since January 2015.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-election/presidential-wikipedias/|title=Wikipedia editors are essentially writing the election guide millions of voters will read|first=Chris|last=Alcantara|date=October 27, 2016|work=The Washington Post}}</ref> The article was the second most changed English Wikipedia article of 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7633160/most-edited-wikipedia-articles-2016-list|title=Death, Donald Trump and Kanye West Had Year's Most Edited Wikipedia Articles|first=Marc|last=Schneider|date=December 23, 2016|website=Billboard}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/22/14052610/most-edited-wikipedia-pages-2016-death-trump|title=Death and Donald Trump were the most edited Wikipedia pages of 2016|first=James|last=Vincent|date=December 23, 2016|work=The Verge}}</ref>

Following Trump's election, his article was the second most viewed English Wikipedia article of 2017, at 29.6 million views.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mashable.com/article/top-50-wikipedia-searches-2017/?jwsource=cl|title=Death and Donald Trump lead Wikipedia's top searches of 2017|first=Marcus|last=Gilmer|date=January 4, 2018|website=Mashable}}</ref> In 2018, the article was covered for image vandalism.<ref name="vandal">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/24/18110545/wikipedias-trump-penis-vandalism-account-hacking|title=Wikipedia's Trump penis vandals have struck again|first=Russell|last=Brandon|date=November 24, 2018|work=The Verge}}</ref>
==Criticism==
On May 14, 2020, Wikipedia co-founder [[Larry Sanger]] said that the idea that the Donald Trump article was neutral was a joke.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/|title=Wikipedia Is Badly Biased|first=Larry|last=Sanger|date=May 14, 2020|website=Larry Sanger}}</ref>
==Vandalism==
On November 11, 2016, the article was vandalized twice by an OurMine member using [[Jimmy Wales|Jimbo Wales]] account with change summary "Rank". The revisions were reverted and they were revision deleted.
===Image vandalism===
From November 21, 2018 to November 25, 2018, the article was vandalized with an image of penis.<ref name="vandal"/> All the vandalism revisions were reverted, and they were revision deleted as either RD2 (Grossly degrading material) or RD3 (Purely disruptive material). The image vandalism was successful that it was revealed by Siri.<ref name="vandal"/>
==References==
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==External links==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump Donald Trump at English Wikipedia]
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