Talk:2006 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania

message: The fundraising data goes back to December; do these numbers mean anything at this point?
--meuu
: I suspect (without checking) that financial reports to the FEC are due quarterly.  If so, this data is the latest available.  John Broughton 15:23, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That should be the case until much closer to election time. --Ajdz 19:57, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would be in favor of deleting it all and linking back to the sites.--Austin 06:21, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fundraising information 

message: I am suggesting that Alan Sandals and Chuck Pennacchio be merged into this article as an alternative to their deletion (the articles had been tagged with Template:Prod). A merge and redirect (or at least a redirect) would prevent the edit history (and the discussion page of the Chuck Pennacchio article) from being lost.--GregRM 22:09, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with the proposal.  The two are no longer running for this office.  Looking at their articles, though, they're pretty thin (particularly Sandals) - I don't think the high school or even college that a candidate attended is worth including in a campaign article, for example, but it's stuff like that that makes up a lot of the text. John Broughton 23:04, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If the regular editors of this article do not think there is anything notable in these articles, I do not have a problem with them simply being changed to redirects to this article.  My main motivation was to preserve the history of the articles (this could be particularly helpful if they run again or become more notable in the future).--GregRM 21:49, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If they become notable again, you can go into the history and just pull up an earlier version to get rid of the redirect. That way the history and content is still saved, right? There also has been an over eagerness of late to create articles for people whose only notability is that they ran for an elected position.  I can kind of see it for the leading candidate in a major party, but people that fall to the wayside in primaries really shouldn't get a mention unless there is a notable amount of buzz about them (see Paul Hackett) --Bobblehead 21:56, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes...as far as I know, the history is preserved after changing to a redirect, so that earlier revisions can be reverted to.--GregRM 17:39, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

text: I disagree with merging such articles and thereby losing much of the information.  Wikipedia is a reference source.  Even if Pennacchio and Sandals never draw public attention again, someone in the future may consult Wikipedia for a fuller picture of the 2006 Senate race.  That could include wanting to know more about the candidates who challenged a heavily favored "presumptive" nominee like Casey.  What kind of people were they?  What were their backgrounds?  It's a perfect situation for the application of the axiom that Wikipedia is not paper. JamesMLane t c 05:11, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Keeping the articles is OK with me, but I think others disagree with their notability. Perhaps an informal vote would be best?--GregRM 17:39, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Running and losing in a primary is not particularly notable and if the articles are kept they risk being submitted for Articles for deletion and then all the information will truly be gone.  There is already discussion on the Village Pump to go through the articles created this election season and delete/cleanup the articles that have been created.  A quick read of the articles seems to indicate that neither Alan Sandals nor Chuck Pennacchio meet the requirements of WP:BIO, especially since the primary was a landslide victory for Casey.  Short of the one line bio existing in this article already I don't see a need to transfer anything else... But if you want to keep the history of the articles, best to shift to a redirect now instead of waiting for an AFD to completely delete the article and history.--Bobblehead 18:24, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've gone ahead and put redirects on the two articles.  As noted above, the information in the two articles prior to the redirect is still available via the history pages for those two articles.  If someone thinks that more information on Pennacchio or Sandals is needed in the campaign article, feel free to add it.  John Broughton 18:42, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge suggestion 

message: 69.215.30.190: Instead of censoring the Endorsement section, try adding endorsements instead. 72.82.215.160 06:46, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Endorsement section

message: The link for the most recent Rasmussen Reports poll doesn't work.  Can someone fix it?  --myselfalso 21:10, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rasmussen Reports 

message: I'm not particuarly familiar with making tables and was wondering if someone could help with consolidating all the polling not under "Final pre-election polling" into one table. Labels for the rows as well as the columns would help, but I just don't have enough experience to do too much toying around with it. I'll do some more looking in the meantime. Bridger 05:33, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polling data 

message: Why are we inserting this British term into an article about American politics?  The term isn't  used here, and is basically unfamiliar. john k 16:11, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Swing" 

message: Northumberland County is miscolored on the county map. Actually, it should be red, since Santorum carried it with 13,304 votes to Casey's 13,140 . Heff01 04:59, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Northumberland County 

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