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Trumps insurrection?
Trump never asked for this to happen. He stated over and over not to be violent. He said to protest peacefully if they were going to protest. If you can show one instance of Trump saying "We need to forcefully change the results of the election with a riot" or anything similar to that, then ill sit down and be quiet. 97.113.112.155 (talk) 19:42, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
- We do not need to, we just need to show RS said it, they have. Slatersteven (talk) 19:43, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
- Funny you don't mention he also said to "fight like hell". 🤔 – Muboshgu (talk) 18:43, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
- (yawns) ---Another Believer (Talk) 19:25, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
Important notes you missed...
1) The leader of the group that went inside the building was nancy pelosi's son in law. He was the guy wearing horns. 2) The cops opened the barricades and the doors to the building for protesters to enter, they didnt barge through barricades. 3) The fact you refuse to remove the "false" out of "Trumps false claim the election was stolen" just because you dont feel comfortable removing a source from the article says alot about the bias the moderators have here. 97.113.112.155 (talk) 19:55, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
- In terms of point number one, I think you mean Jake Angeli, and it might be worth perusing that article. Cheers. Dumuzid (talk) 20:02, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
- Nancy Pelosi's son in law is Michiel Vos. He was reporting from within the riot for Dutch television channel RTL 4’s talk show, according to the Associated Press. 73.162.157.101 (talk) 18:20, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
- Lolololol. The disinformation is strong with this one. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:42, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
- sigh... ---Another Believer (Talk) 19:25, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
Article seems a bit biased?
I'm not too knowledgable about US politics (I'm not from the US) but some of the wording seems to me unrelated or skewed to make Trump look as bad as possible. I will refer to the beginning section:
• "Called to action by Trump," (referring to the capitol attack) - The Wikipedia article cites two news articles - one from the New York Times, and one from Business Insider. Both articles refer to a tweet by Trump: "Big protest in D.C. on January 6th, Be there, will be wild!". I am dumbfounded as the Wikipedia line implies that by tweeting those lines Trump directly told protestors to breach into the capitol. A politician rallying supporters up to protest is nothing new, how come that is any different?
Additionally, the claim that Trump instigated the attack should be treated as an opinion, not concrete facts (since it's political analysis), and thus referred to as such: maybe something along the lines of "[Political analysts] say that Trump instigated the attack" with accompanying sources.
• "...to support his false claim that the 2020 election had been "stolen by emboldened radical-left Democrats" - I don't want to delve into the claims too much but calling them outright false is misleading. It has never been proven, but we don't know for sure. It would be more accurate and better to call them "unproven" or "unsubstantiated".
• "and said "If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore.", In his hour-long speech Trump included 22 grammatical variations of the word "fight"." - This information is pretty much irrelevant and only serves to cast Trump in a bad light. The only real justification of including it is to show that Trump did incite the mob to violently breach into the capital, but the word "fight" has been used in political discourse rhetoric for ages (e.g. "Obama fought against Romney in the 2008 elections", "Fighting for Women's rights"), it doesn't exclusively mean fight in the sense of violence (e.g. "Biden fought off the Coronavirus"). It is, most frankly, a blatant skewing of Trump's words in order to make him look as if he directly instigated the attack.
Incidentally, in the same speech Trump said: “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” (my italics) [source], this directly contradicts the previous point but its not mentioned in the paragraph.
• "Trump resisted sending the National Guard to quell the mob." - This statement cites only one source and is a gross skewing of what we know happened - We know that it was Mike Pence who (allegedly) ordered the National Guard to quell the mob, not Trump. We can't exactly know from that that Trump resisted quelling the mob.
And that's only from the opening paragraph. I don't say this as a Trump supporter (which I am not anyways, not that it should matter), but rather as a supporter of an unbiased Wikipedia with no political influences. It is not to say that Trump didn't do anything wrong - far from it, I simply wish that the articles would be more reliable as an independent source rather than a mouthpiece for whoever can edit the article most subtly.
Thanks lads. BonkeySmoke (talk) 08:19, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
- There is overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Books, news reports, analysis, and Congressional testimony. The article is not biased. SPECIFICO talk 08:51, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
- To address one point, The claim the election was stolen has been tested in the courts, and no evidence was produced that past scrutiny. Slatersteven (talk) 18:29, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
Requested move 14 November 2022
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January 6 United States Capitol attack → January 6th United States Capitol attack – the TH seems important to me - this is how people actually speak of it, "sixth" not "six". Previous moves I believe were:
- 6 Jan 2021 from January 2021 United States Capitol protests to 2021 United States Capitol protests
- 7 Jan 2021 from 2021 United States Capitol protests to 2021 storming of the United States Capitol
- 9 August 2021 from 2021 storming of the United States Capitol to 2021 United States Capitol attack
- 12 Aug 2022 from 2021 United States Capitol attack to January 6 United States Capitol attack
In parlance a "th" is more common than a comma, and sometimes you even see both, but "-th" is phonetic and just how people speak/write. HearthHOTS (talk) 18:26, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
- Oppose and close per WP:SNOW. We don't use ordinals in dates per MOS:BADDATE. VQuakr (talk) 18:48, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
- Oppose per User:VQuakr, and possibly WP:SNOW-close. We don't use ordinals in dates per MOS:BADDATE. Paintspot Infez (talk) 18:53, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
- Oppose - You may say "January 6th" but this article is written, and when written it's January 6, as shown by the reliable sources in the article (Example: [1][2]). How it's said has no bearing on how it's written. Reliable sources support "January 6" over the proposed "January 6th" and that's before we even get to MOS:BADDATE. - Aoidh (talk) 18:56, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
Dishonest reporting.
Your article is biased by the left leaning influence of your overlords. The PEOPLE of this country know what the truth is and be warned WE THE PEOPLE have had all we will stand for and your days are numbered. 2600:8803:A03:4700:E0D3:201:6ECB:A495 (talk) 19:30, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
- Your post doesn't state what you want done. Please state what you wish to be changed about the article LordEnma8 (talk) 19:33, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
- So what are your complaints about the article? ---Another Believer (Talk) 19:36, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
- Please read wp:soap. Slatersteven (talk) 19:38, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
- Which country? This is an international project? Finton the magical salmon (talk) 10:11, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
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