Talk:George W. Bush/Wikipedia

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Note: this article was moved to its current location as a result of this AfD discussion. fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 18:28, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia's article on George W. Bush is by a considerable margin the most edited article on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. As of October 2005 it had been edited 21,507 times, vastly more than its closest competitor, the article about Hurricane Katrina, which had been edited 7,968 times. There are some internal project pages which have received more edits, such as the original Articles for deletion page which was edited 40,240 times.

As the sitting president of the United States, George W. Bush is arguably the most prominent person in the world, and also one of the most controversial. The page recieves a great deal of vandalism, and a significant portion of those edits are either simply vandalism or reversions of it. The controversial subject matter has also led to "edit wars" over its content, also inflating edit counts. The article is also the most discussed on Wikipedia. The discussion page, Talk:George W. Bush has been edited 7,422 times, more than any other talk page.

George W. Bush has been the incumbent American president for the entirety of Wikipedia's existence. The article was created very soon after Wikipedia started in January 2001, but the original version has been lost. The earliest saved version comes from January 29, 2001, when the article was at GeorgeWBush (see Wikipedia:CamelCase and Wikipedia) It is a rather brief "stub" article, edited from the one on whitehouse.gov. The current article is one of Wikipedia's longest at over 12,000 words. The article also has several subpages such as Domestic policy of the George W. Bush administration. Perhaps the most intense period of vandalism and edit warring was in the lead up to the 2004 presidential elections. The battle became so intense that the New York Times covered it. For the last portion of that campaign the article was protected from editing, as was that of Bush's opponent John Kerry.


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