Talk:Timeline of the Donald Trump presidency
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WAY too many articles[edit]
I can understand that there is certainly much to cover in the tumultuous 4 years of the Trump presidency, but sixteen articles?! That is way too much, especially for only one term, and is the most amount of "timeline of" articles devoted to one person's presidency, as most other presidents either have one article devoted to a year, or even only one timeline article covering their entire presidency. For instance, Timeline of the Barack Obama presidency is split up into nine articles (one per year), and Timeline of the Ronald Reagan presidency covers his entire 8 years. However, Trump's articles cover just three months each, and are oftentimes longer than other presidents' timeline pages covering their whole presidency. It seems that there are articles devoted to Trump that no other politician has, such as Residences of Donald Trump and Racial views of Donald Trump, and these "per quarter" articles are no exception. They should be trimmed down. -- Politicsfan4 (talk) 03:26, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Politicsfan4: Agreed. Maybe now that it is nearing its end, the topic of Trump's presidency will stop showing such a WP:RECENTISM bias. –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 04:53, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
- Now that it's over, we should look at trimming down the quarter articles, and then merge into half-years or even years. I agree with MJL that time will help draw recentism-based attention away from Trump, but we should also not forget another reason why division into quarters was chosen. Trump's presidency was, for better or worse (in my opinion worse, but let's not get forum-y), quite a noteworthy period in recent decades of American history, and it was the subject of great controversy and attention. As it stands now, this timeline is undue for writing too much about what Trump did, but we should also be careful not to overcompensate and write too little about it. The choice of quarter division was reasonable for the time in which it was made, but now that Trump's presidency is in the past it has become less useful. - 188.182.13.127 (talk) 12:06, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
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