. I'll be refining it to the Trials of associates section. ~ Amory (u • t • c) 01:19, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
- {{no redirect|1 = Individual-1 }} → :Donald Trump (talk · links · [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Individual-1&action=history history] · [https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews?start=2018-11-08&end=2018-12-07&project=en.wikipedia.org&pages=Individual-1 stats]) [ Closure: {{#ifeq:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|(@subpage)|[{{fullurl:Individual-1|action=edit&summary={{Urlencode:{{FULLPAGENAME}}#Individual-1 closed as keep}}}} keep]/[{{fullurl:Individual-1|action=edit&summary={{Urlencode:{{FULLPAGENAME}}#Individual-1 closed as retarget}}}} retarget]/[{{fullurl:Individual-1|action=delete&wpReason={{Urlencode:{{FULLPAGENAME}}#Individual-1 closed as delete}}&wpMovetalk=1}} delete]}} ]
This feels like vandalism to me. I think it should be deleted. Nothing links there, too. Mateussf (talk) 15:30, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
- Delete per nom Abcmaxx (talk) 18:25, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
- Keep. People searching for Individual-1 should be directed to the person to whom that refers. Fullmetal2887 (discuss me) 20:13, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
Weak delete. Not mentioned in target article. Steel1943 (talk) 21:07, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
- :Struck out since the nomination appeared incorrect when I made this comment. Steel1943 (talk) 15:54, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comment this seems to be a thing, per [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-utterly-lawless-individual-1/2018/12/08/7d85b53e-fb19-11e8-8d64-4e79db33382f_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.880376239288 WaPo] and [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/mueller-briefs-bad-news-trump-manafort-and-cohen/577681/ Atlantic] headline usage. Quiddity (talk) 22:37, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comment this name apparently originates from the Special Counsel investigation (2017–present) [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/individual-1-trump-emerges-as-a-central-subject-of-mueller-probe/2018/11/29/e3968994-f3f7-11e8-80d0-f7e1948d55f4_story.html]. I'm not sure exactly which of the many sub-articles of that topic would be the best place to mention this name, if any. In any case the current target is no good; people searching for "Individual-1" should be directed to a sourced explanation of the term in context, not a page about a TV show which doesn't mention the term at all. 59.149.124.29 (talk) 02:45, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
- Keep It now redirects to the correct place. However, as previously mentioned, there is no explanation of the (perhaps legalistic) rationale for using this term. A properly-sourced couple of sentences in the main Trump article should suffice, imo. jxm (talk) 19:52, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comment in that case, could you go ahead and try to add those few sentences? RFD can't dictate consensus on what content should appear at target articles, so we have to try and see in advance if editors of Donald Trump will accept including discussion of the name "Individual-1" there. If it turns out they will not, we'll have to come up with an alternative target where content can be included, so that readers aren't left typing in a search term and landing on a page with zero explanation of that term. 59.149.124.29 (talk) 04:09, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
- Keep - pretty obvious. If not, we'd have to make an article on it. And if it's not mentioned, then perhaps it should be.Volunteer Marek (talk) 20:48, 9 December 2018 (UTC)
- Keep, or possibly redirect, or expand, but certainly not delete. The term is mentioned in RS, and so deserves coverage here. Benjamin (talk) 00:33, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
- Delete - possible vandalism/soapbox, and just seems bad idea to make a bit of single report’s procedural trivia into an odd redirect. Seems like just a quirk SOP and “individual 1” would be a different person in other dispositions by Cohen, or in other cases. Cheers Markbassett (talk) 04:01, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
::Yeah but now this is more than just a placeholder in a disposition. It's how people are referring to him:
::"Manafort, Cohen, and Individual 1 Are in Grave Danger" [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/mueller-briefs-bad-news-trump-manafort-and-cohen/577681/]
::"The utterly lawless ‘Individual-1’" [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-utterly-lawless-individual-1/2018/12/08/7d85b53e-fb19-11e8-8d64-4e79db33382f_story.html?utm_term=.3da56858f297]
::"Individual-1' memes are everywhere after 'substantial' prison time suggested for Cohen" [https://mashable.com/article/individual-1-meme-mueller-sdny-cohen-memo/#pk6DlDcMgmqw]
::"The walls are closing in on ‘individual #1’" [https://www.ft.com/content/f7b66c02-fb34-11e8-aebf-99e208d3e521]
::"Prosecutors: Cohen committed crimes at the direction of ‘Individual-1’ aka Trump" [https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/prosecutors-cohen-committed-crimes-at-the-direction-of-individual-1-aka-trump-1392139843963]
::"President ‘Individual-1’ Trump Hasn’t A Clue, But Twitter Wits Aim to School Him" [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/twitter-trump-individual-1_us_5c0b4142e4b035a7bf5b4c71]
::"Trump, 'Individual 1,' is newly cast as center of special counsel's probe" [https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Trump-Individual-1-is-newly-cast-as-center-of-13432906.php]
::And so on and so forth. Come on. I know, that you know, how to use google. So just type "Individual 1" into that search bar and let me know if someone OTHER THAN Trump, from all these "many other cases" pops up.
::What IS the downside of having this redirect actually? Not seeing one. If you don't know that he's referred to as such, then you can live blissfully on in your ignorance, unaware that such a redirect exists.Volunteer Marek (talk) 04:11, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
::: User:Volunteer Marek Naaah. The question is what is the point of making a bit of procedural trivia into an article redirect, that a generic term is used in such reports was in this one report, esp. if a search would find any case(s) of it anyway ? It does not seem to be any of the guideline reasons WP:POFR. It seems sort of like making "Orange face" or "Small hands" a redirect to Trump, just a bit of snark - and the WP:R#DELETE guideline reasons to delete it. Especially with needing to explain the term of redirect means Trump and that it is a legal generic also done with many other cases and which report is meant or why it seems going too far for a silly prank. (Will we then have a paragraph that explains that yes, in every disposition the outside parties are referred to in generic ways, so that in another brief Individual 2 is Trump and Individual 1 is Comey and in some other case Individual 1 is someone else or perhaps they are identified as Employee 1 so on ? And shall we do redirects for all the variations Individual #1, Individual-1, Individual one ?) Seems simpler to just have the article say "Trump" and skip the fillip of there is this procedural abstract in the Cohen report except perhaps in the article text in which case a search would find it so a redirect has no value. The findings you see today seem only a common example of WP:RECENTISM or flap du jour are a bit viral -- it's not like the label was not in evidence a year ago, it's just that today its in the news -- wait a week and see if it has any enduring WEIGHT or goes away again among the other uses of individual 1. That brings up that there are other
:::* Individual 1 - term in biology cases, e.g. genetics Generation 1, Individual 1
:::* Individual 1 - Medicare category, e.g. Qualified Individual 1 (QI1)
:::* Individual 1 - IRS descriptive (e.g. Taxpayer, Trustee, Individual 1 and Individual 2 are each 25 percent partners.)
:::* Police reports use "Individual #1", e.g. " Individual #1 is described as a Hispanic female, between 20 and 30 years old, approximately 5'5 ..."
::: Cheers Markbassett (talk) 20:08, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
:: User:Geni - seems a possible spot, though I'd expect the Secret Service codenames to be there (e.g. "Timberwolf") . But it will take time to see if this one rises to the common use of "Dubya" or "Slick Willie". Cheers Markbassett (talk) 20:14, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
- Delete: the term is used in this phase of the legal proceedings and is likely not to have any significance long-term. We don't need to tell anyone who "Individual-1" is. What is the point of the redirect.--Jack Upland (talk) 07:01, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
- Comment: at 21:08, 9 December 2018, Reach Out to the Truth ... [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2018_December_8&diff=872884301&oldid=872883833 updated this nomination] to show the current target this redirect has always targeted: Donald Trump. When the nominator inputted this nomination, the target on the nomination displayed as Donald Drumpf. The nomination was performed manually, considering that the nominator did not tag the redirect with {{Tl|Rfd2}}; [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Individual-1&diff=872699379&oldid=872600717 I tagged the redirect]. Any comments that were made prior to this correction may be referring to when the nomination erroneously stated that this redirect targeted Donald Drumpf. Steel1943 (talk) 15:54, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
- Keep per WP:CHEAP. - MrX 🖋 18:27, 10 December 2018 (UTC)
- Keep and to be really precise, the redirect target could be Donald Trump#Associates, which is where Individual-1 is mentioned. -- MelanieN (talk) 00:59, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
- Keep and refine to Donald Trump#Associates where explanation of the name "Individual-1" has now been added thanks to MelanieN, and has survived for a couple of days. Although there are many people who may have been known as "Individual-1" within the context of an investigation, given the high profile of this individual & investigation it appears to be the WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT at least for now. However there should be no prejudice against speedy renomination if the relevant content gets removed from the target and efforts to add it elsewhere also fail. A redirect which wastes the reader's time by sending them to an article where they get no explanation of the term they searched for is expensive, not cheap. 59.149.124.29 (talk) 01:36, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
- Add mention to List of nicknames of Presidents of the United States and retarget there. My concern is that this information about "Individual-1" may be removed from the Trump article in the future per WP:UNDUE or similar. The article already has a prose size of 96KB which is huge. feminist (talk) 05:16, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
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