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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.
Sarkozy and 13 co-defendants have been convicted for the Bygmalion scandal
I see that the first sentence of the article says that Sarkozy is a convicted felon. However according to french law, corruption isn't a felony. It's a "délit", which is a less serious thing than a "crime".
USER:NeverSeenAgain 'Convicted felon' is a US term/concept and neither French law, nor the BBC source use the term. BBC specifies his crime. Additionally, it is nonsense to imply that his criminality is more notable than his political life - the corruption charge only makes sense as an abuse of his political power.I've amended, to put the conviction after mention of his presidency but further rephrasing might be apt.Pincrete (talk) 06:40, 1 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Why not use a translation of the end of the introduction of the French version of this page :
"In 2023, in the Sarkozy-Azibert case, he was sentenced on appeal to three years' imprisonment for corruption and influence peddling. In 2024, in the Bygmalion case, he was sentenced on appeal to one year in prison for illegal financing of his 2012 election campaign. In the Sarkozy-Gaddafi case, he is accused of taking bribes from the former Libyan dictator in exchange for illegal financing of his election campaign."
Is this really site wide now? This and the Netanyahu portrait look absolutely ridiculous and don't even match with their predecessors and successor's images. Nickeleh (talk) 05:35, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
level-5 vital article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
