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Was he shot?

I've seen conflicting reports as to whether he was actually shot. Benpiano800 (talk) 22:42, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sky News claims there was blood coming out of his ear, which would imply the bullet hit him. Luunarr (talk) 22:43, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Could also be injury from the Secret Service agents jumping on top of him. Mårtensås (talk) 22:45, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

He reached for his ear right after you here the first shot and before the secret service run to him 129.13.192.39 (talk) 22:58, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

So far none of the sources seem to clearly say that he was shot. Will become clearer once we know more. Gust Justice (talk) 22:44, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Title

"Shooting" might be taken to imply that the attack was fatal. I propose moving to "2024 Donald Trump assassination attempt". Mårtensås (talk) 22:44, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

But we do not know yet if it was an actuall assasination attempt? Tinkaer1991 (talk) 22:51, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If/when it comes out that it was an assassination attempt (i doubt it wont), we should just call it Donald Trump assassination attempt. In the meantime, we should call it smthn like "Donald Trump PA rally incident/shooting"Nojus R (talk) 22:53, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes i agree. Tinkaer1991 (talk) 22:54, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, but I am not even sure "shooting" is appropriate at this point: none of the reliable sources state that unequivocally. Dumuzid (talk) 22:56, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Resolved

---Another Believer _(Talk) 22:46, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Redirected. ---Another Believer _(Talk) 22:58, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rename

I think Attempted assassination of Donald Trump would be a better title, per example of Attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. There's no reason why 2024 should be specified in this specific situation since it was the first to happen. Luunarr (talk) 22:53, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

agreed 24.115.255.37 (talk) 22:54, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If and when the sources tell us it was unequivocally an assassination attempt, I agree. Dumuzid (talk) 22:57, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Article already being heavily vandalized

We need admin-protected, its been 10 minutes and we've already seen like 2 different attempts at vandalism Sir MemeGod ._. (talk - contribs - created articles) 22:55, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Autoconfirmed protection would do it in my opinion, it's mainly IP editors doing the vandalism. Not a single user account as far as I've seen. Luunarr (talk) 22:57, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What we needed was for this article not to be created yet, because as yet no-one knows what's going on. Instead of which we have a thousand would-be citizen reports who saw something on the TV or the internet and jumped to conclusions. But yeah, protection for this and related articles is a priority. GenevieveDEon (talk) 22:59, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Completely agree with this. Dumuzid (talk) 23:00, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]