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Wikipedia coverage of Donald Trump

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 23, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Since launching his campaign for the 2016 United States presidential election in 2015, Wikipedia coverage of Donald Trump has been a subject of controversy, largely on the English-language version. Trump's Wikipedia article and related pages have sparked debate between Wikipedia editors, and have also often been vandalized. These actions have resulted in increased media attention and subsequent protection against editing by inexperienced and malicious editors to prevent further vandalism to the articles.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Wikipedia, coverage and Donald providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Wikipedia coverage of Donald Trump” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.