Wikipedia has had so many changes to the definition of a recession since it was announced that real GDP had dropped for the second consecutive quarter on July 28th it froze edits to its page for "recession," halting a frenzy of changes to the entry after the Biden administration insisted that the U.S. economy has not entered a economic downturn.

Two consecutive quarters of decline in a country's real gross domestic product (real GDP) has consistently been used as the definition of a recession in the US and is common throughout the world.