Talk:1968 United States presidential election

message: Why in the world is HH's picture now some grainy picture of him where we can barely see his face? There wasn't any discussion and no vote for it. I understand the debate between BW and color, but this new picture has no business being there. It's absolute garbage. Trajan1 (talk) 20:13, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hubert Humphrey's Picture Is Awful, and Was Done Without Consensus 

message: While I am an advocate for the color photos, I have changed the photos back to B&W to reflect consensus. Hold a new vote if we need to change said consensus, though I doubt we should keep up this habit of rapidly changing it, lest this just becomes a more wiki-legally acceptable version of an edit war. ~ AlaskaGal~ ^_^ 03:00, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Think before you speak, as you were the one who changed the photos in 1964 to color without a vote.  So from this view, it seems you only like change as long it is YOU, YOU who does it. Qutlooker (talk) 22:53, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The photos 

message: One of the most common arguments for why to add color photos to this article is because 1964 and 1972, which immediately precede and follow this election respectively, have color photos. However, I haven't seen anyone making a similar argument for 1964. That one is immediately preceded and followed by elections with B&W photos. Since good color photos for this election don't seem to exist, it may be a good idea to consider changing 1964's photos to B&W. YeetusDeletusYT (talk) 16:32, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is everyone only focused on changing the images for this article? 

message: Is there any source that the official color for the American Independent Party is purple? If not, George Wallace’s color should be changed to orange throughout the entire article. Prcc27 (talk) 19:36, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: George Wallace color

message: @Qutlooker, I've opened a discussion at the Teahouse so that we can get some advice on closing this discussion properly. If it's closed and the latest black & white vote discarded, then color will be confirmed and I will protect that consensus from now on. This whole thing wasn't a dispute or me attempting to make an enemy out of you, I originally advocated for color and still prefer color, I just think that we need to respect the existing consensus and do this properly, especially not rushing it because of how many past discussions there have been about this. It's too important for us to ram this change through without a clear vote in favor which is externally closed. ~ AlaskaGal~ ^_^ 21:13, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I very much agree. I, too, always generally favored the color images, but wanted to respect the wishes of the majority. Now that a vote has ended in favor of the color images, I think it's safe to say there's no problem with using said images. YeetusDeletusYT (talk) 17:43, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: While there's fights about if HistorianL's vote is valid, I still think it should be, but I think I mostly just concede. Our efforts should be on getting a better Humphrey photo. AlaskaGal~ ^_^ 20:28, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: First and foremost, see WP:Wikipedia is not a democracy. No one can say "the vote is over" and expect that to be binding, unless they follow established procedures like WP:RFC. If someone has an opinion after an informal discussion like the ones above is ended, they ought to be considered. WP:CONSENSUS is not what 3 editors said in one section, but what is the overall opinion in all sections and discussions taken together. —CX Zoom[he/him] (let's talk • {C•X}) 21:42, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Closing the image vote