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::::{{U|KidAd}}, yes, I understand all of that. What I'm getting at is, what is the downside of submitting the draft for review or AfD now? Yes, it may be declined again, but that's no worse than the present situation. [[User:Js2112|Js2112]] ([[User talk:Js2112|talk]]) 21:57, 20 September 2020 (UTC) |
::::{{U|KidAd}}, yes, I understand all of that. What I'm getting at is, what is the downside of submitting the draft for review or AfD now? Yes, it may be declined again, but that's no worse than the present situation. [[User:Js2112|Js2112]] ([[User talk:Js2112|talk]]) 21:57, 20 September 2020 (UTC) |
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:::::There is no downside, but I expect it to be rejected for the fourth time. You could always contact a friendly administrator and work to fast-track the article. Or you could just wait a few weeks. [[User:KidAd|<span style="background-color: orange; color: black">KidAd</span>]] [[User talk:KidAd|<span style="color: orange">talk</span>]] 22:09, 20 September 2020 (UTC) |
:::::There is no downside, but I expect it to be rejected for the fourth time. You could always contact a friendly administrator and work to fast-track the article. Or you could just wait a few weeks. [[User:KidAd|<span style="background-color: orange; color: black">KidAd</span>]] [[User talk:KidAd|<span style="color: orange">talk</span>]] 22:09, 20 September 2020 (UTC) |
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Rex Maddaford
Hi. The link you've provided doesn't load - I get an access denied error message with "This request was blocked by the security rules". I've tried it from two different machines too, with the same result. Therefore, it fails WP:V. Do you have an alt. source? Thanks. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 06:07, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
Weird. It has worked for me. I will attempt to look for another source tomorrow. Thanks for letting me know. KidAd (talk) 06:15, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
- Thank you. Could be a UK thing, but hopefully there's another source. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 06:17, 14 May 2020 (U
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...to notify article creators when you start an AfD! /Tpdwkouaa (talk) 16:50, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
Nomination of Anthony Labruna for deletion
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- Just to explain what happened here: User:BrxBrx attempted to create an AfD, but it was malformed and did not get properly listed in the discussions. I recreated it as a courtesy. -- MelanieN (talk) 15:19, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
Reminder
Please tag your new articles with appropriate WikiProject banners on their talk pages, e.g. {{WikiProject Biography}} and {{WikiProject United States}}. Also, Ballotpedia is not a reliable source and should not be used in a WP:BLP. SounderBruce 02:55, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
- SounderBruce, Is this in reference to anything specific? Also, there is currently no consensus on the reliability of Ballotpedia per WP:RSP. It can be helpful for sourcing succession information related to officeholders. I don't see any reason not to use it until a consensus is established. KidAd (talk) 03:01, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
- KidAd, it's a last-resort resource. For an article like Bill Jenkin, it would be simple to find a local newspaper or the legislature's rolls to source the date of his swearing-in. SounderBruce 03:03, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
- SounderBruce, I will keep that in mind. Thanks for the reminder. 👍 KidAd (talk) 03:06, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
- KidAd, it's a last-resort resource. For an article like Bill Jenkin, it would be simple to find a local newspaper or the legislature's rolls to source the date of his swearing-in. SounderBruce 03:03, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
Carlos Maza citation error
In your recent edit to Carlos Maza, you inadvertently used the wrong citation for a quote - a book about Nazi propaganda radio published in 1997 can't possibly have a quote from Maza about YouTube. I've removed the erroneous citation; you might want to find the correct one. NorthBySouthBaranof (talk) 01:46, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
- NorthBySouthBaranof Thank you so much for the alert. I must have made an error using the automatic citation tool. Instead of pasting in the Business Insider URL, I most likely pasted in a series of words from the cited quote ("something...something...leftist propaganda"). Again, thank you for catching my mistake. KidAd (talk) 02:11, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
Teresa Leger Fernandez forum
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Hi KidAd, thanks for reaching out. Wanted to discuss a few things on the Teresa Leger Fernandez page. It seems like two specific claims in the US House race section are written with the intention to mislead and the allegations are being treated as fact without context. In regards to the attack ads on Plame the article is written in a way that paints Leger Fernandez as complicit when the same source clearly lays out a response to the allegation that I believe would be beneficial for broader and fuller context. Second, regarding the allegations of "dark money" again that source points out a response for the Leger Fernandez team. Again, this context is key as the way the current article is written is misleading and essentially accuses Leger Fernandez of FEC law violation, which they responded to. I feel like if these statements are being made, it is critical that broader context should be given. Happy to discuss more! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Collg76 (talk • contribs) 20:13, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for the info, KidAd Not affiliated, just a concerned voter who thought full context might be helpful and would help for neutrality since again, a full picture would be more helpful. Good to know the full rules. I still believe that a response or at least a recognition of campaign finance laws would be beneficial since the wording now implies that these allegations are true. Thanks for the discussion — Preceding unsigned comment added by Collg76 (talk • contribs) 00:05, 4 July 2020 (UTC) |
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@KidAd:, No, I am not Collg76, although we are making the same point about facts and context. Since you have more experience editing Wikipedia, I am happy to defer to you on protocols and to work with you on good faith consensus. Correspondingly, please note, I am applying the same professional standards to this contribution that I would to any other writing for publication that carries my name. The reason I asked you to look at the multiple new citations was to reassure you that the additional information is thoroughly supported, fact-based, and independently reported, not supposition or editorializing. What caught my attention when I noticed there was a Wikipedia page on Teresa Leger Fernandez was the biased and incomplete information contained in this passage:
How would you like to proceed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by TRGreen (talk • contribs) 18:15, 7 July 2020 (UTC) Take this to the article’s talk page to gain consensus for your changes among other editors. KidAd (talk) 18:23, 7 July 2020 (UTC) |
Sure, if you could explain or direct me to guidance on how to move this discussion to the article's talk page and seek consensus. TRGreen (talk) 02:45, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
- Read WP:CONS and WP:TALKDONTREVERT. KidAd (talk) 02:47, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
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- Prahlad balaji, Thank you, and just in time for my 2.5 year anniversary! Better late than never. 😊 KidAd (🗣️🗣🗣) 20:22, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
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Hi there. Given that there is now significant independent coverage of the subject (Fox News, Jacobin Magazine, Heavy.com to name a few), I kindly ask you to reconsider and remove the deletion discussion you have started. His death may or may not make him notable, but the coverage of his death so far clearly shows this is a notable person. The main concern in the 2018 AfD was a lack of independent coverage, but this is clearly no longer an issue. Thanks. Onetwothreeip (talk) 03:43, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
- Thank you for your message. Unfortunately, the page is (and was previously) not supported by enough WP:RS coverage to warrant its existence. His untimely death is certainly tragic, but coverage of his death is not enough to merit a page per WP:SINGLEEVENT. Additionally, I don't think Heavy.com is a reliable source (see: perennial sources. Again, I thank you for leaving a message and assuming good faith, but I do not believe the subject meets notability and will not be retracting the AfD. KidAd (💬💬) 03:49, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
- Thank you for explaining further. I can inform that Brooks is not known for a single event, as can be seen from these articles. It is indeed a single event that has caused these articles to be published, but the articles clearly describe him as being notable for other things. I have no comment on the reliability of Heavy.com. Onetwothreeip (talk) 03:54, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
- Fair enough. I'm happy to discuss further in the AfD. KidAd (💬💬) 03:54, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
- I assume by the time you read this message you would see the progress on the AfD. If you have not yet, I am sure you will do so. While you have a right to nominate articles for deletion, it would reflect positively on you if you withdrew the nomination before the discussion is closed. Onetwothreeip (talk) 09:32, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
- Fair enough. I'm happy to discuss further in the AfD. KidAd (💬💬) 03:54, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
- Thank you for explaining further. I can inform that Brooks is not known for a single event, as can be seen from these articles. It is indeed a single event that has caused these articles to be published, but the articles clearly describe him as being notable for other things. I have no comment on the reliability of Heavy.com. Onetwothreeip (talk) 03:54, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
- Thank you for your message. Unfortunately, the page is (and was previously) not supported by enough WP:RS coverage to warrant its existence. His untimely death is certainly tragic, but coverage of his death is not enough to merit a page per WP:SINGLEEVENT. Additionally, I don't think Heavy.com is a reliable source (see: perennial sources. Again, I thank you for leaving a message and assuming good faith, but I do not believe the subject meets notability and will not be retracting the AfD. KidAd (💬💬) 03:49, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
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Sara Gideon
Bates' action is indeed on Bates page, but the House leader's decision to remove or not remove him, and when, is about the House leader (Gideon), not Bates. 2601:681:4A00:4FE0:983E:F4B:EB86:72FB (talk) 04:49, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
- Inclusion on Gideon's page is WP:UNDUE, but feel free to gain consensus on the article's talk page. KidAd (💬💬) 05:09, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
- Kidad: we have been gaining consensus there. It is sourced from multiple sources; it is a vote about her leadership 52-71 in the House. That was about Gideon, not Bates per se. First vandalism warning. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:681:4A00:4FE0:4438:C80D:13F3:B012 (talk) 02:15, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
There is extensive discussion in the talk. Please do your homework before you delete. Also, you gave 0 reasons for the deletion. It is about a 52-71 vote about Gideon's handling of Bates' alleged sex offense as a House member. Eliminating large swaths of text, without a reason, after extensive discussion, without looking at any of the 'talk' about it, sounds like vandalism to me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:681:4A00:4FE0:4438:C80D:13F3:B012 (talk) 02:27, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
- Please provide a link to the consensus that supports your changes. You did not make a single edit before this and have never participated in a talk page discussion. KidAd (💬💬) 02:30, 2 August 2020 (UTC) I have made numerous edits to the page.
Interesting experience on the Sara Gideon and US Maine 2020 pages. I study fairly extensively a vote in the Maine House towards Speaker Gideon, concerning a potential sex offender representative in the house, Dillon Bates. A vote is done, 52-71. I report this as accurately as I possibly can, with 4-5 different, neutral citations. I get erased, often without explanation and threatened with being blocked. I seek an arbitration after I am repeatedly erased. Users: Neutrality, KidAd act as each other's arbitrator. Having looked at their own pages, I see they are also in other brouhahas over deleting information that paints a democratic candidate in a bad light, or inserting partisan talk. When I contribute, every time (within minutes: I hope they are adequately compensated!) one of them has said nothing (half the time), or the other half, said: 'no references!', 'irrelevant', 'bizarre language', 'BPL', and the like, I have answered their concerns, trying to seek consensus, and warning against potential vandalism. What is disconcerting about this experience is that it is power speaking to truth: if you have extensive time to edit wikipedia pages, you are heavily partisan invested, and you attain a higher status, your privilege is to edit, not provide adequate justification, and lock pages. Arbitrary, biased power is unfortunate. Apparently, if two hyper-partisan wiki editors don't like the information, that is enough to 'prevent consensus'. Not that we could find a common resolution, neutral language, or shortening of its mention. No, rejection, usually without explanation. I will keep trying to have my case heard: that a potential mishandling of a sex offense case in the Maine House by the Speaker is wiki worthy. I hope I can find a fair arbiter, besides a few who take turns acting as eraser one minute, then my arbiter the next, even in an election year. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:681:4A00:4FE0:4438:C80D:13F3:B012 (talk • contribs)
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Hatnote
I removed the hatnote you added to Frank A. Howard. Per the guideline WP:NAMB, hatnotes are generally not needed unless the title is ambiguous with other pages. Regards.—Bagumba (talk) 01:14, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
Lisa Goodman AfD
I wanted to call your attention to the fact that the AfD for Lisa Goodman might be motivated by her recent votes. I don't think it's a coincidence that one of the council members who voted against reallocating police funds and against firing the MPD public information officer is now facing a deletion. I believe that the potential for sock-puppeting, trolling, and canvassing are higher on this AfD. Do you have experience dealing with this?--Mpen320 (talk) 04:19, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
- I wouldn't make any assumptions about political motivations for the AfD. As far as I know, the discussion has not experienced any SPA activity. But I do still believe the nomination is frivolous and flawed. KidAd (💬💬) 04:59, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
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Cori Bush
I'll move the draft into the mainspace, once I work on it for a minute. – Muboshgu (talk) 04:34, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
Thank you. I will work on it more tomorrow as well. KidAd (talk) 05:01, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
A cheeseburger for you!
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[1]. Doug Weller talk 13:32, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
Doug Weller, I saw that an IP made that change and I went to revert it. I was editing on mobile and there must have been an edit conflict. KidAd (talk) 17:54, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
- Fine, I thought it must be a mistake. Doug Weller talk 12:41, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
Your Thad Allen edit
If you are going to change the date convention used in the Thad Allen article then I would suggest that you change the markup at the beginning of the article from dmy to mdy and change ALL the dates in the article. This is a military article as well as a biography so either format is acceptable but mixing formats within an article isn't. I have reverted your edit so that you may decide which way you want to go with this. Regards. Cuprum17 (talk) 15:10, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
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Madison Cawthorn
Can you please elaborate on your objection under WP:BLP on the Talk page for Madison Cawthorn? I've created a discussion header there for this purpose. Juansmith (talk) 18:24, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
IP Message
Hi, My name is Tera Freese. I am writing you to ask that you stop "correcting" my husbands Stan Freese page. I understand that you may not be able to verify some of the information, but I assure you, we can. Please understand I am grateful for this site and the enormous amount of work which goes into the everyones bio. I do not wist to sound ungrateful, I an just trying to have all of his information listed. Thank you. Tera Freee — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1702:bd0:9cb0:5092:d834:f009:a419 (talk • contribs)
- Unfortunately, I have no way to verify your identity or claims. KidAd (talk) 21:54, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
About Charles H. Taylor's district
Hello, fellow WikiProject US State Legislatures participant! I've noticed your edits on pages related to the subject in the past, and I think you're a very valuable member of this small team we have in the project. This last edit however, I have a question about. On Charles H. Taylor's page, you made some copy edits, but in doing so, you removed the district information from the infobox about his district information. I wanted to ask if this was intentional, and if so why. Adding district information into the infobox seems to be fairly common practice with state legislators.RoundSquare (talk) 16:34, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
- RoundSquare, Thanks for the message. In my first edit, I removed the second office altogether. This was an accident. In restoring the second office, I did not include the district because it was listed as the "Kent and Ottawa County district." As far as I know, Michigan House and Senate districts are numbered, not named after counties as they are in Massachusetts. I assume that there is a numbered district that corresponds with these two counties, but I have not yet found it. KidAd (talk) 16:37, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
- You're right that Michigan districts currently are numbered, but that's only been a thing since 1965. Before then, it was based on counties in the state house. The state senate has always been numbered. So, at Taylor's time, it was county based districts. An easy mistake to make! I think this has been resolved, and I will put Taylor's district info back.RoundSquare (talk) 16:54, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
- RoundSquare Great! Thanks for the clarification. KidAd (talk) 17:18, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
- You're right that Michigan districts currently are numbered, but that's only been a thing since 1965. Before then, it was based on counties in the state house. The state senate has always been numbered. So, at Taylor's time, it was county based districts. An easy mistake to make! I think this has been resolved, and I will put Taylor's district info back.RoundSquare (talk) 16:54, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
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Hi KidAd. Thank you for your work on several American politics article. Please be careful not to edit war, even if you believe your edits are correct. - MrX 🖋 18:10, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
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Dear Kidad, The follow up on MrX's request, I would ask you to please stop undoing the edits that we (Desert_Diva and I) are trying to make on Melanie A. Stansbury's page. There are several updates that we need to make on the page and you take down our edits before we can really get started. The edits that I made today made a correction and rearranged the citations to better justify statements. My edits were minor and made some corrections that needed to be made and you took them down with a cryptic "not helpful" comment. Stansbury was elected to the NM State House of Representatives two years ago. Her page needs to be updated with information about the legislative work she has done since. Please let us finish making the updates, then you can edit what we have done if you have improvements to make. Thank you, BiostatSci — Preceding unsigned comment added by BiostatSci (talk • contribs) 22:57, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
Kidad, I am not being paid to edit this page. I do know Ms. Stansbury, as she is a local politician. I support her for re-election, but does that disqualify me from making properly sourced updates to her page? I am very experienced at properly justifying statements in my papers. I will do the same here. I will make any disclosure necessary before continuing to edit. Once that is done, I would ask again that you not take down our edits until we are finished with them. You can then assess whether the page has been biased in any way. If you believe it has we can talk further then. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BiostatSci (talk • contribs)
Dear Kidad, I checked about whether the academic degree of a person should be capitalized. This is what I found: "Academic degrees are capitalized only when the full name of the degree is used, such as Bachelor of Arts or Master of Social Work. General references, such as bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degree, are not capitalized." at https://wmich.edu/writing/rules/capitalization. I also have seen this rule followed in other Wikipedia articles (See, for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Social_Services). Apparently, there are differing opinions on this. Whatever the Wikipedia style is fine with me. I view Vote Smart as similar to Ballotpedia, which is commonly referenced in articles about politicians. I used it because it was accurate and has more complete information about Stansbury's education. I can piece together multiple references to document the same information, if necessary. In articles about people, biographical information almost always comes from the subject of the article, either directly or indirectly. So, I chose the reference that had almost all of it in one place. There were no discrepancies among the sources. Some were just incomplete. Also, concerning the addition of a second reference to document the "born in Farmington and raised in Albuquerque" was made to completely document the statement. The previous reference only documented the "born in Farmington" part. I took the statement about Stansbury succeeding Jimmie Hall because it is going to be redundant with information in a subsequent section to be added (i.e., Elections). The edit that came just before the Jimmie Hall sentence was made because we are not sure whether she still works for the Utton Center, which was the case when the interview occurred but may not now. So, I reworded the sentence to allow for the possibility that she does not still work there. Finally, and most importantly, I added the section New Mexico House of Representatives because things are not static. She has a record in the House and it should be documented in this article. We will do that by adding sub-sections under this new section as follows: Elections 2018 2020 Tenure We will document some of the more important bills that she wrote in the legislature. Committee Assignments Respectfully, BiostatSci — Preceding unsigned comment added by BiostatSci (talk • contribs) 03:15, 20 August 2020 (UTC) |
Some baklava for you!
Just reviewed John J. O'Connell (politician), nice job. Cheers Megan Barris (Lets talk📧) 08:12, 20 August 2020 (UTC) |
Montoe District (Santa Rosa)
I reverted the article for the time being.
I don't know if you are in the area, but this is a current discussion item in the Santa Rosa Community. One school board member proposed an emergency action to remove the School's name in the belief it was tied to President James Monroe. This article is the key reference for the community about the true history of the District and the School. Constructive, limited improvement suggestions are welcome. Please see the talk page on the article. A total elimination of much of the District history and the total elimination of the Elementary School makes Wikipedia much less useful for well-documented history.
We look forward to seeing your suggestions on the article's talk page. Thanks.MikeVdP (talk) 19:51, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
- MikeVdP, I have responded to your comment on the article's talk page. I will also say that the page likely does not meet WP:GNG. Per WP:GEOLAND,
Populated places without legal recognition are considered on a case-by-case basis in accordance with the GNG. Examples may include subdivisions, business parks, housing developments, informal regions of a state, unofficial neighborhoods, etc. – any of which could be considered notable on a case-by-case basis, given non-trivial coverage in multiple, independent reliable sources
. Seeing as Monroe District (Santa Rosa, California) is supported by trivial mentions in local publications, the page should probably be redirected to Santa Rosa, California or deleted. KidAd talk 21:53, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
Mia Gregerson
Can you explain why you deleted major sections of the Mia Gregerson page while claiming "copyedits and infobox cleanup" as the reason? Your major deletions of documented and sourced details appear to be politically motivated during a campaign season. Please explain your actions. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nizer (talk • contribs) 20:12, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
- Nizer, I have restored my edit, seeing as you reverted highly-necessary fixes I made to the infobox and the general structure of the article. The only text removed from the article was a sloppy "controversy" section, which violates WP:CSECTION. KidAd talk 20:17, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
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Nomination of Kamala Harris citizenship conspiracy theories for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Kamala Harris citizenship conspiracy theories is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
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Your draft article, Draft:Paul Nolan (theatre actor)
Hello, KidAd. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Paul Nolan".
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Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia! UnitedStatesian (talk) 04:47, 29 August 2020 (UTC)
What do you think about my edits here? Marquardtika (talk) 04:13, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
- Marquardtika, looks kosher to me! . KidAd talk 04:14, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
Hello, KidAd. On what grounds did you delete edits to said page made 9/3/20? I am the representative, and can provide references for the information I included, because the entry, as it stands is partial, misleading and inaccurate.
Tangaimei (talk) 18:28, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
- Tangaimei, Your edit here introduced unsourced WP:PROMO material. If you are editing your own page, I highly suggest that you stop immediately and read WP:COI. Follow the instructions I left on your talk page. Do not edit the page further. KidAd talk 19:22, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
Interesting. I did not know that the person being discussed could not make an effort to correct factual errors and provide information that was less misleading. I think far less of Wikipedia now, although I do understand the formal requirements to create the appearance of fairness. The outcome does not, in my view, serve the public interest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tangaimei (talk • contribs) 19:25, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
- Tangaimei, Your opinion is noted. Feel free to follow instructions on your talk page to submit an edit request. KidAd talk 19:29, 4 September 2020 (UTC
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September 2020
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You have shown interest in post-1932 politics of the United States and closely related people. Due to past disruption in this topic area, a more stringent set of rules called discretionary sanctions is in effect. Any administrator may impose sanctions on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic.
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Robert McClenon (talk) 00:09, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
- Robert McClenon, Is this about the Theresa Greenfield draft? If so, I had no involvement in the most recent submission. KidAd talk 00:23, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
"Babur Lateef" listed at Redirects for discussion
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2020 United States Presidential Election page
You recently made an edit to the 2020 United States Presidential election page removing information from the page's lead concerning Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen. I would suggest you self revert, as there is a clear consensus through the talk page and its archives to include information regarding Jorgensen's candidacy within the lead.XavierGreen (talk) 20:25, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
- XavierGreen, There is consensus on the article's talk page about mentioning third party candidates in the lede. Jorgensen's candidacy is mentioned in the lede. There is no such consensus that Jorgensen-related trivia belongs in the lede. You would need to form consensus for that. KidAd talk 20:32, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
Greenfield
KidAd, what do you think about the Theresa Greenfield draft at this point? Is there additional editing needed either to remove unsuitable material or establish notability? Thanks, Js2112 (talk) 18:49, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
- Js2112, Thanks for your message. I think the draft is in a good place at this point, and the merge of drafts has been largely successful. However, I would recommend not submitting it for further review until after the election. If she does not win, the draft will become null. If she does win, the draft will be automatically accepted. At this point, individuals who are in the position to review drafts will maintain the opinion that she is not notable until she wins. KidAd talk 19:00, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
- KidAd, I agree that there seems to be a prevailing opinion that candidates cannot be notable, but I think that viewpoint is mistaken according to the official WP:NPOL guidelines. It appears that there might be at least some support for accepting the article (I assume you would be in favor), and in principle there could be value in forcing other editors to defend their opinions about political notability rather than simply accepting them. In any case, let's say in the worst case, the draft is nominated for deletion now, and there's a consensus for deletion. Can't it still be revived immediately after the election if she wins? Js2112 (talk) 19:33, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
- Js2112, I'm not quite sure what you mean. Maybe I was unclear. You can submit the draft for review, but it will likely be rejected unless she wins the election in November. The draft will not be
deleted
, however, unless she loses the election in November, and there will be no point in submitting the article for review. Even if she loses, there is a possibility that she may run again, and the draft will remain in place. KidAd talk 20:40, 20 September 2020 (UTC) - I feel like I am doing you a disservice with my poor explanations. WP:DRAFT has all the information you could ever need on the process. KidAd talk 20:41, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
- Js2112, I'm not quite sure what you mean. Maybe I was unclear. You can submit the draft for review, but it will likely be rejected unless she wins the election in November. The draft will not be
- KidAd, I agree that there seems to be a prevailing opinion that candidates cannot be notable, but I think that viewpoint is mistaken according to the official WP:NPOL guidelines. It appears that there might be at least some support for accepting the article (I assume you would be in favor), and in principle there could be value in forcing other editors to defend their opinions about political notability rather than simply accepting them. In any case, let's say in the worst case, the draft is nominated for deletion now, and there's a consensus for deletion. Can't it still be revived immediately after the election if she wins? Js2112 (talk) 19:33, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
Empty Spaces pt. 2
I fail to see how these spaces bother you.