Colonel William A. Phillips

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Hi - this New York Times exposé reveals a lot of information about the Seven Springs estate that is important to mention here, like its use in (perhaps legal) tax evasion. The house warrants its own article, it seems. ɱ (talk) 02:34, 28 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Number of residences

@Ɱ: It could be argued that saying either six or four residences is WP:SYNTH, so it might be best to just remove that sentence altogether. The places currently designated his residences are the White House, Mar-a-Lago, Trump Tower, and Bedminster per the sources. His adult sons are using the carriage house at Seven Springs for recreation but no source says that the family ever lived there, even part-time. His plans (per the NY Times article from 2006) to renovate the mansions, build 15 luxury homes, and move there with Melania and Barron fell through (per the NY Times from 2020). The only source for Trump Park and Trump Park Avenue (Keith Flamer, Forbes) doesn't say that he ever lived there, he just owns apartments he rents out for lots of money. Daughter Ivanka's family living at Trump Park Avenue doesn't make it a residence of Trump's, and, also according to Flamer, Trump sold the apartment he owned in the building in 2015. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 19:03, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't exactly have time to re-evaluate all the sources I include, but I created and wrote this article by researching personal residences for Trump and his family, that he owns or rents. These six are included in the references. It doesn't matter whatsoever how much time he spends at any of them, or even if he ever did. These six are the only personal residences he currently owns or rents; all his other owned properties have never had any personal residences for the Trump family AFAIK. ɱ (talk) 19:17, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
For example, though, your analysis of Seven Springs is incorrect: "But the property remains a significant place for the family, said Eric Trump on a recent tour of the 50,000-square-foot palatial home--the first the family has ever granted--because it is the place where the kids spent summers and weekends, where Eric Trump proposed, and where The Donald taught his little Trumps construction." (Inside Seven Springs, The Lavish Mansion Where The Trumps Spent Summers). ɱ (talk) 19:20, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Here's a recent Forbes article that I've only skimmed so far. Says that he converted the hotel into condos that he is selling, and that he sold Ivanka Trump/Jared Kushner's apartment for $15.9 million in 2017, to Angela Chen, a woman with Chinese government connections, also according to Forbes. (editing conflict, wrote this before your edits) Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 19:23, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
The sources talk about real estate and property he owns or has owned, not residences (dictionary definition: [1]). Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 19:30, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'll have to look into the Forbes bit. But a dictionary definition of "residence" doesn't cut it. You well know rich people keep personal residences and don't necessarily use them. This article is for any property he owns or rents that is intended at least partially for personal/family use. That is regardless of a history of use. ɱ (talk) 19:41, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
You well know rich people keep personal residences and don't necessarily use them. No, I don't; they may have vacation "cottages" (mansions to you and me) or residences in cities/places they visit regularly. They also buy condos and houses as safe investments, to rent them out and/or to sell them later for a higher price. That makes them landlords and owners, not residents. And while the condos and houses may be property for residential use, they're not their personal residences, they're the personal residences of the people who live in them. Trump was a real estate developer who did the building+selling and the buying+selling for a living. It wasn't just a sideline as it is for some celebrities. He bought and converted the Barbizon Plaza Hotel to the Trump Parc condos and the Delmonico Hotel to the Trump Park Avenue condos. These are neither current nor former residences of Trump. I also wouldn't consider residences of his adult children as his personal residences. Space4Time3Continuum2x (talk) 09:26, 30 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Notability

Does this really deserve its own entire article? I have no idea why this even exists. It’s entirely pointless - the information regarding where this man lives can be simplified considerably and included on his own article. There’s no article on the residences of FDR, Robert Menzies, Richard Nixon, Macron, Charles de Gaulle, or even more controversial figures like Tito or someone like that. To me, this is an entirely superfluous article, and should be deleted.

194.223.80.206 (talk) 13:56, 30 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Cool dude, an extensive deletion discussion proved community consensus to keep it. ɱ (talk) 14:16, 30 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
And that “community consensus” only included 10+ users, who (presumably) would all be American. Please explain to me why this article deserves to exist. 194.223.80.206 (talk) 12:23, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, deletion discussions are pretty clear community consensus, especially when that thorough for just a single article. And don't presume when you don't know, nor is there a nationality requirement on Wikipedia. ɱ (talk) 12:54, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The deletion discussion was four years ago, and in that time, this article has not become any more noteworthy. This seriously needs to be considered for deletion once again, which I’ll bring up with an admin. But, seriously, I would like to know - why does this article deserve to exist? As the creator of it, surely you can explain why? 194.223.80.206 (talk) 14:18, 3 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah I can, but I'm not going to beat a dead horse to someone who can't just read the sources to find out, wow, there's plenty of top-quality news coverage, and that's really all that's needed for this to exist as a Wikipedia article. ɱ (talk) 14:29, 3 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
News coverage? That’s what is required for subjects to be noteworthy enough to have an article on Wikipedia? So perhaps Wikipedia should create articles for the residences of Logan Paul? Or any other number of attention seekers catching the public eye? If that’s the best you can come up with for why this article should exist, then I see no reason why another RFD can’t be started as soon as possible. It’s been four years, so it’s wholly appropriate to start a new one. 194.223.80.206 (talk) 12:12, 7 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Cool dude. There's 100 more reasons, but, yes, notability is the main one. Not gonna waste my time here. ɱ (talk) 14:25, 7 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Residences_of_Donald_Trump