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The Green and Libertarian parties only got estimates, while you have exact totals for Dems and Republicans.
This reinforces the idea that we must tick with the 2 party system.
Greg Spence Wolf 24.16.169.51 (talk) 02:10, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Change Trump photo to one that was from 2015-2016, not after the election
I propose changing the Trump photo to this (File:Donald Trump 2016 cropped.jpg) from Wikicommons. The photo used at the moment is from 2017, which is after the election took place. Clinton's photo is from 2016. This would make it consistent. CNC33 (. . .talk)23:32, 28 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Agree - I second this proposal. (Although I do think this version (attached) looks better.) A recent edit changed JB's photo in the 2020 election to a photo from before the election, which I personally believe is better for chronological(?) purposes. I do think a broader discussion is needed for all U.S. presidential elections. Longestview (talk) 00:17, 30 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Disagree: I also think consistency is key. And it is common place throughout all the other presidential election articles to use the presidential portrait if the candidate goes on to win the presidency. Prcc27 (talk) 04:33, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
after checking, I can confirm that is not the case, there are multiple U.S Presidential Election Articles that do not use the presidential portrait. (If you want me to, I can get a list.) InterDoesWiki (talk) 18:52, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry. I meant all the recent presidential elections (all the ones in my lifetime). Changing Trump’s photo would put this article out of step with the other articles of this century. Many users on the 2024 presidential election article have expressed a desire to use presidential portraits as the photo, so long as the portrait isn’t too outdated (i.e. 7 year difference). Prcc27 (talk) 15:24, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No, not really. Neither the 2000 nor the 2008 election articles use the official Presidential portraits for george w. Bush or barack obama, but the 2004 and 2012 do, cuz by that time, they were presidents EarthDude (talk) 18:11, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Agree - I think every election infobox should use a good photograph of the candidate that was taken before- or at least very close to the time of the election, and its anachronistic to use a photograph from 2017 to represent an election in 2016. HadesTTW (he/him • talk) 18:51, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Agree for the reasons above. The proposed pic is more representative of him during the election cycle, and matches the age of the Hillary one. — Amakuru (talk) 14:38, 23 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I say that it doesn't matter at all. I see we keep the old one. The quality is bad on it (zoom in on it) and the background is unreal and it is weird to have. amicrophone in the picture. I say we chage Leikstjórinn (talk) 00:18, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Also the Biden phtoto was taken after his election. I think this is stupid, it's not like he changed looks in the middle of the time of election day and photograph day Leikstjórinn (talk) 00:21, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Disagree that image is of poorer quality (face pose, microphone, too zoomed-in) than the official photograph, and it's silly to pretend that a photo taken just one year later somehow doesn't get the job done. And if we're desperate to replace the image, why that one? There were exhaustive discussions prior to the election about which image to choose, and I don't believe that was the one that was landed on. Can we just leave these images alone? Nojus R (talk) 04:45, 7 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Disagree I Think it is far more professional to use the much higher quality portrait for whoever wins the election. This goes for every single president's page. And like Leikstjorinn said, They look basically exactly the same in 2017 vs 2016, so I don't think any real change is necessary. Almost every presidential election page has official portraits for first term winners, and I feel like changing almost every president's picture over a 1 year difference is not really necessary. I also think that using the official portrait helps to visually differentiate the winner vs the loser, and I feel like switching that out with random campaign photos makes the pages feel more dull. Nousername46000 (talk) 01:02, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Why do people insist on not using the correct name?
In official documents, in the White House Archives, in Trump's social media account, and in many news agencies, it says Donald J. Trump, but Wikipedia administrators still insist on the name being written as Donald Trump. Why? Don't be stubborn about not writing the correct name! 78.177.160.99 (talk) 18:51, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I standardized the names on the results table for the states so they are consistent with other presidential elections pages and have no abbreviations. The previous names were somewhat arbitrarily abbreviated or not, sometimes with contemporary postal abbreviations and a period at the end, and sometimes with older postal abbreviations. Now all states are the same as previous elections.
The section `Electoral results` lists the electoral vote total for the Trump-Pence ticket at 305. This is a mistake, since that ticket only received 304 votes (there was an additional vote from a faithless elector for Paul-Pence, which is included in the table).
Another way to verify the inconsistency: the sum of the Electoral Votes listed in the `Electoral results` table is 539, whereas there should only 538 total. 74.67.225.73 (talk) 15:07, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This quote is one of note that I believe deserves to be added as it was not only repeated during the 2016 election but I see it around the internet to this day, usually co-opted by Democrats during moments of Republican slip-ups (for instance, the ineffectiveness of the January 6th riots). Bixerino (talk) 03:01, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
