Talk:Oregon's statewide elections, 2006
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[edit] Notes Area
Some recent edits in the Multnomah County judicial races are unacceptable. Wikipedia is not a place for original reporting. The "notes" area on this page is suitable for basic factual reporting with citations, links to stories in the media, and endorsements that are verifiable. Anything conveying a point of view or attempting to sway voter opinions is off-limits.
[edit] Party Colors
This is a LOT of information on one page, and it's a commendable effort to consolidate all the data in one place. However, using dark colors (especially red) in the candidate cells makes the name links difficult if not impossible to read. I'm in favor of using Template:Party shading/Republican, Template:Party shading/Democratic, etc., to standardize this content with partisan usage throughout wikipedia, but I don't have time to implement that at this moment, so I cleared the dark colors for legibility now. Since challengers are sorted into partisan columns already (which may or may not be necessary...see how some similar states have handled that) it's already clear who is running in each party. I'd prefer a simpler output, perhaps with (R), (D), (L), (G) etc. next to each candidate's name, especially for the incumbents, and all candidates for any given office in the same column together. I will come back & work some more on it, as the results of many races are still unclear by this page.--Duff 19:07, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
- Duff, thanks for your comments. I am reverting your edit for the simple reason that they remove information - though I quite agree with your concerns about readability. I appreciate your links to the "standard colors," which I wasn't aware of. For the time being, I will replace the reds and blues with the preferred shades, but am happy to explore better ways to present who won which race. -Pete 03:41, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
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- Pete, I almost reverted it myself, realizing as I finished that, as you noted, they were indeed informative for the fix. Regrettably, I did not save separately the other work I did on the page...adding internal links, etc., and so the work there is now gone instead. Live and learn. --Duff 17:11, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
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- Duff- I thought we could pull those specific edits out of the page history...actually meant to do that myself after reverting the colors. Sorry to undo your work like that. Thanks very much for working on this page. -Pete 18:05, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
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- Pete- Aha! Here is the coloretta stone Template:Party_shading_key. --Duff 08:01, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Proposed candidate deletion
Schutz in the 4th District State House notes section. I don't see him in the primary and he seems to have run for a City Council seat instead, in Josephine County. [1]. I'm leaving this for you to adjust, if appropriate, in case you have some other details I'm missing. --Duff 09:21, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
- Good catch, thanks! The official list of candidates is available here. I'm sure there are other errors, there's a lot of info to keep up with. I'll fix this one, but feel free to fix any other errors you find. Thanks! -216.99.213.241 06:43, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] merging
I redirected a page on the State House elections to this page. There's a little stuff worth salvaging and incorporating here, like the intro and the results (percentages.) So I made a temporary sub-page here: Oregon's statewide elections, 2006/from Oregon House Elections, 2006 -Pete 03:09, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] External links
Since Wikipedia is not a directory, and the elections are over, can we remove all the external links to the candidate's webpages? A lot of them are probably defunct by now anyway. We need to wikilink to those people notable enough to have articles. Katr67 19:19, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
- I tend to agree, though I feel it was important before and shortly after the election to have them there. That said, I started and constructed this page before I had much experience with Wikipedia, and if I were to do it over, I would not embed the external links, but would use footnotes. -Pete 20:36, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
