Talk:2006 Michigan gubernatorial election

message: I started a "Notable endorsements" section with Kwame Kilpatrick's endorsement of Granholm.  As more notable endorsements are announced, it can be added.  The section can be split between Granholm endorsements and DeVos endorsements. Steelbeard1 14:39, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Kilpatrick, while he is a Democrat, is a non-partisan mayor.   Daily newspaper endorsements would be added as the endorsements are announced.  Partisan politicians who endorse their party's candidates are a given and not worthy of this article.  Partisan politicians who endorse the other party's candidates (i.e. Republicans for Granholm) are noteworthy and could be inserted.  Steelbeard1 15:23, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Googling "Republicans for Granholm", there is a real URL with that name republicansforgranholm.com  There is a dormant democratsfordevos.com URL parked by GoDaddy.  Steelbeard1 19:31, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable endorsements

message: For the sake of consistency, the poll data should stick with the date that the poll was released.  The links usually give when the polls were conducted. Steelbeard1 17:19, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Polling

message: Today will be my state's 1st of three debates on 'the issues' and I humbly request that access to this page be limited to those of us with accounts so we can update this article with factual info siphoned from the debates. After the fact, the article is likely to get even more traffic, and purhaps the best thing for the article is to remain limited until November. Steelbeard1 12:42, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for limited access from 2, October 

message: "... but not enough to counter Granholm's debating skills."  I didn't see any statement to that effect in the article cited; regardless, it's also subjective opinion.  It's not a concensus of experts or a public poll. lesmana 02:49, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Second debate comments

message: Here's a link.
http://woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5641990Superway25 02:33, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exit polls showing Granholm winning 

message: The DeVos for Governor web site at  is now a dead link.  I mentioned it as such in the external link but thought I'd ask here first if the dead link should be deleted. Steelbeard1 15:44, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  DeVos for Governor campaign web site now dead link 

message: There is a template on the Douglas Campbell (Michigan politician) article suggesting that it be merged with the Michigan gubernatorial election, 2006 article.  There is absolutely no rational or further discussion given on this topic leading me to wonder why the template is there.
I disagree with a merger.  Douglas Campbell is a notable figure, and should have a separate article as do other candidates in the same election.
--Redandready (talk) 01:07, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Douglas Campbell

message: There is a template on the Bhagwan Dashairya article suggesting that it be merged with the Michigan gubernatorial election, 2006 article.  There is absolutely no rational or further discussion given on this topic leading me to wonder why the template is there.
I disagree with a merger.  Bhagwan Dashairya, and should have a separate article as do other candidates in the same election.  NPOV.
--Redandready (talk) 01:21, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: comment It looks like there has been considerable improvement on this stub recently.  However, it is not clear that this article (in its current state) would survive an AfD debate.  If the choice is between a merger and nomination for deletion, I would favor a Full-content text merger, preserving a complete section for Bhagwan Dashairya and a subsection for Carl Oehling  That way, no content would be lost, and the title would remain available, if notability could later be unambiguously established.  This would address some of the concerns expressed in this discussion by other editors.--Redandready (talk) 14:33, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I wholeheartedly endorse that plan. Qqqqqq (talk) 14:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

text: Noting here for reference that the history of that talk page was  to this talk page's Archive 1 in April 2009. All the best. ‍—‍a smart kitten[meow] 09:14, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bhagwan Dashairya 

message: Anyone interested in the discussion that came before the merger can read the talk page:
Talk:Bhagwan_Dashairya  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Redandready (talk • contribs) 18:29, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Noting here for reference that the history of that talk page was  to this talk page's Archive 1 in April 2009. All the best. ‍—‍a smart kitten[meow] 09:14, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Bhagwan Dashairya Talk page

message: In looking at the history, I have noticed a repeated removal of the three of the candidate photos.  This was not an issue prior to the use of an info box that included the photographs.  
In the most recent inclusive revision, the two top vote getters were in the top level of the info box and the remaining three were at the bottom.  This placement sufficiently addressed the need to place the top vote getters in a more prominent position, while being accurate and balanced in the recognition that the vote was split between five candidates.
I see no valid reason to completely purge the info box of three candidates as has been done in the later exclusive revision.
--Libertyguy (talk) 03:31, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: There is absolutely no reason for excluding some candidate images while including others.  There does appear to be a standard applied to the infobox that could exclude low vote getters, but nothing like this for simply including images.  The images should be restored to the article.--208.39.169.124 (talk) 16:42, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: As proven yet again in this election, the minor party candidates did not get sufficient votes to earn inclusion in the infobox. Steelbeard1 (talk) 16:47, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Removal of most candidate images