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Stephen Harrison (June 4, 2024). "The Most Heated Debate on Trump's Felony Conviction Is Happening on … Wikipedia?". Slate. Retrieved June 4, 2024. Trump himself is unprecedented, but that hasn't stopped Wikipedians from using precedent to argue about the writing of his Wikipedia page. Take former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich—his article bluntly states that he was convicted and incarcerated for public corruption, but that fact isn't mentioned until the page's second sentence. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy's bribery scandal likewise appears in sentence two.
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There are no details in this entry which would enable the reader to begin forming an opinion on the governor's actual guilt. I imagine such objective facts would also be hard to find anywhere else; isn't Wikipedia a good place for them? WmDKing (talk) 19:34, 6 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The original article claims that both of Rod's parents were immigrants and that they moved to Chicago in 1947. That is not true. Rod's mom was born and raised in Chicago. Her parents were from Serbia, but she was born here. 2600:1700:790D:240:954B:C534:AE03:BDF6 (talk) 04:59, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
News sources are reporting how close Blagojevich's pardon and Madigan's conviction were
I personally don't believe Blagojevich is innocent of the charges he was convicted of, but I just wanted to include in the article what news sources are claiming.[1][2] Feel free to erase if it is reasonably deemed irrelevant. I will hold no objection to it getting erased for logical reasons.2601:449:4582:B3C0:585D:58B:B875:4CFF (talk) 21:55, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
