Talk:Topical timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections

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Text and/or other creative content from this version of Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections was copied or moved into Threaded timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections with this edit on 01:51, 8 August 2019‎. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

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Section size for Topical timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections (28 sections)
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(Top)	1,742	1,742
Background: presidential election campaign	11,418	11,418
Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin	1,978	1,978
Internet Research Agency	32,079	32,079
Hacking incidents	25,828	25,828
Searches for Hillary Clinton's missing emails	11,302	11,302
Wikileaks, Guccifer 2.0, Assange, and Stone	47,006	47,006
Manafort, Davis, Patten, Gates, Kilimnik and Deripaska	35,173	35,173
Papadopoulos, Mifsud, Polonskaya, Timofeev, Millian, Halper and Downer	36,119	36,119
Goldstone, Veselnitskaya and the Trump Tower meeting	16,855	16,855
Carter Page	22,347	22,347
Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak	36,070	36,070
Steele dossier	12,024	12,024
Intelligence intercepts, warnings and investigations	23,248	23,248
Trump's statements about Putin	10,605	10,605
Other contact attempts by Russians towards the Trump campaign	6,062	6,062
Donations from Russians and Ukrainians	7,481	7,481
Brexit, Farage, Banks and Wigmore	8,684	8,684
Before Donald Trump's candidacy	6,932	6,932
2016 presidential campaign	13,129	13,129
Post-election transition	15,523	15,523
See also	48	1,277
Investigations' continuing timelines	347	347
Related continuing interference	167	167
Other related articles	715	715
References	44	44
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Post 2016 events

Events should not be excluded because of January 20, 2017 from this threaded list.Theoallen1 (talk) 18:59, 31 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Page size

This article currently has 423,011 bytes of wiki markup. That's too much by far. What's the best way to split it? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:48, 16 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Pigsonthewing: you may find Talk:Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections useful background, if you haven't look-over already. Notice in particular My very best wishes's helpful suggestions and action. X1\ (talk) 22:01, 16 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Should definitely be split, especially since we have now separated the timeline into threads. However, this article should replace the Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections first. Onetwothreeip (talk) 09:22, 17 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Note Pigsonthewing, per the Talk page wlink I provided above, there is not consensus to destroy the long-standing Timeline and replacing it with this one, much much to the contrary; see comments by BullRangifer, My very best wishes, Websurfer2, Theoallen1, and mine there. Supporting information at May 2019 DRN also. X1\ (talk) 23:37, 19 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, X1 is correct about it. Those are two very different timelines (contrary to the title, they include a lot of different events). Moreover, there was basically a consensus that the size of the list should not be an issue. My very best wishes (talk) 00:46, 20 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Actually it is incorrect. There was no such consensus, despite choosing only certain people to notify here. Deceptively linking to a past version of an archived discussion, rather than the archive of the discussion itself, is also not welcome. The only way that these two articles include different events is if editors have been omitting to include events into one that they have included into the other. Onetwothreeip (talk) 09:00, 20 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

See 123IP's continued attempts to delete the Timeline. X1\ (talk) 00:01, 27 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Attribution

I have added my best quess at attribution. Still needed for article (not Talk page) clarity is something to the effect of (previously):

Using Template:About

For the beginning of the complete chronological timeline, see Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. For continuation, see Timeline of post-election transition following Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.

I'll review rewording. X1\ (talk) 20:37, 6 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of unsorted section

There is no point in retaining the unsorted section.Theoallen1 (talk) 00:01, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Multiple timelines are confusing and difficult to navigate

So now we have

Topical timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections

Timeline of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections

Timeline of post-election transition following Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections (a contender for worst article title ever)

Wikipedia is supposed to be full of smart and helpful people. Can someone please ask them to assist with this problem? Viriditas (talk) 21:33, 15 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]