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Former featured article candidateElon Musk is a former featured article candidate. Please view the links under Article milestones below to see why the nomination was archived. For older candidates, please check the archive.
Good articleElon Musk has been listed as one of the Social sciences and society good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Did You Know Article milestones
DateProcessResult
June 4, 2021Good article nomineeListed
July 24, 2021Peer reviewNot reviewed
August 23, 2022Featured article candidateNot promoted
November 1, 2022Good article reassessmentKept
Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on June 15, 2021.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Elon Musk lost $16.3 billion in a single day, the largest in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index?
Current status: Former featured article candidate, current good article

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 3 August 2024

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In the Politics subheading of the Other Activities section, should [this story] about Musk forming America PAC and how it is potentially farming swing state voter data be included in the paragraph about his support of Trump's campaign? Coalah (talk) 04:44, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The story is covered in the WP article about America PAC so I think it warrants inclusion here, as well. Coalah (talk) 04:47, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Added that Musk said he "created" America PAC. QRep2020 (talk) 22:13, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 18 August 2024

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He is of Canadian and maybe Pennsylvania Dutch descent, if the Pennsylvania Dutch were the ones who settled in South Africa. Otherwise he is of Canadian and South African descent. He was able to get a Canadian citizenship via his mother. He couldn't have done that if she was British. Please do not insult Canada by implying that we are British, we are not. We may have started from British settlers but so did America. Would you call someone of American descent British, too? Canada has been an independent country for more almost 160 years, please remember from now on that we are a separate country from England and the UK. I really like the UK, but to call us British is just as bad as calling us American, or calling Austrians, German. Theshowmecanuck (talk) 00:16, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. M.Bitton (talk) 01:44, 18 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Main Image

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Currently, the main image in the infobox is an image from 2023. However, a more recent image taken by me of Musk at a conference in Montana last March may be better as it is more recent. I would like to know what you all think Wcamp9 (talk) 03:29, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

looks like he got manbewbs in that pic 122.54.207.116 (talk) 00:15, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
At this point, we have cycled through several images in the past month. I recommend we stick with the current selection and leave it be for now. Towards that, I will add a comment to the article's source code asking that future image changes be first discussed here. QRep2020 (talk) QRep2020 (talk) 02:30, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Wcamp9 To be frank, it’s a bad photo. It makes him look sad. Alexysun (talk) 10:12, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The current image is low-quality. elijahpepe@wikipedia (he/him) 00:09, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The images that are getting replaced in infobox are all of low-quality/low-resolution. I have reinstated the last stable, high-quality/high-resolution image of Musk to the infobox. Svampesky (talk) 03:45, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A sad sad photo

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Y’all really gave him a sad sad main photo. I object to this change. Alexysun (talk) 10:11, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 27 August 2024

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Elon musk got rich from selling nudesCite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page). 73.129.26.236 (talk) 05:21, 27 August 2024 (UTC) Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).[reply]

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Cowboygilbert - (talk) ♥ 05:22, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 1 September 2024

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(EDUCATION) where he earned two degrees: a Bachelor of Arts in economics, and a Bachelor of Science in physics from the university's Wharton School. (Interchange the words physics and economics words) Shadabqurashi (talk) 05:54, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Bunnypranav (talk) 08:28, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Profile image

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The profile image keeps getting changed. It is probably the least important element from an encyclopedic standpoint and yet gets so much editor attention as of late. Can we please decide on a semi-permanent image? 22:50, 6 September 2024 (UTC) QRep2020

@QRep2020 I put the image back to the most recent 2023 image rather than keep the current image where he looks unkempt. From WP:BLPIMAGE "mages of living persons should not be used out of context to present a person in a false or disparaging light. This is particularly important for police booking photographs (mugshots), or situations where the subject did not expect to be photographed." Several of the images people have used were from different angles or were in crowd situations where he wasn't expecting a photograph. The one I now put back is from an official photo when he was expected to be photographed. Ergzay (talk) 23:47, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Wcamp9 I suggest discussing before changing the image. Pinging you as you've changed the image several times. Ergzay (talk) 23:51, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This [[1]] seems to be a crisper image. Slatersteven (talk) 14:49, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

RfC: Infobox image

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Which of the images below should appear on the infobox? elijahpepe@wikipedia (he/him) 16:02, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The following are images that have been used in the last two years. Options D and G are images that have not been used in the infobox and have been added to elicit discussion. The infobox image should not be changed during the duration of this RfC.

elijahpepe@wikipedia (he/him) 16:02, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@ElijahPepe FYI, Option D was in fact just added to the page. I was the one who reverted it. Ergzay (talk) 18:18, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Survey

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Discussion

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Leodan Silva

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Hola Elon Mouk soy un fan de usted x sus proyectos y humildad y solidaridad con las demás personas lo sigo en sus redes sociales facebook, Telegram es un fraude y estafadores usan su imagen para estafar yo soy una víctima de ellos he tratado de comunicarme con usted x todos los medios para que otra persona no sea víctima de estafa si este mensaje lo recibe comuniquese con migo por favor soy de Venezuela mi clave 70 la suya 71 x si se puede comunicar conmigo 2803:C000:E:BB5:7F6C:D100:2357:17BE (talk) 19:47, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]