Talk:Rachel Treichler
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The proposal for deletion says that only elected officials may be included in Wikipedia, but the Candidates and Elections page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Candidates_and_elections, says this is a matter of debate, and gives a sample format for a candidates page, with which this page is consistent.
The Candidates and Elections page also says that "As a compromise between those who would keep all candidate articles and those who would delete all articles on yet-unelected candidates, this guideline states that articles on elections should be written before articles on individual candidates. Only if and when there is enough independent, verifiable information to write a non-stub article on a candidate should one be written." In this case, there was an article written which included Rachel Treichler's name, before this article was initially added. That article was also deleted.
No one has deleted the substantial discussion of participation in this attorney general race in the Wikipedia articles on Andrew Cuomo, Jeanine Pirro, Charlie King or Sean Patrick Maloney. It is extremely partisan to allow some candidates to post information about their campaigns on Wikipedia and to deny any mention on Wikipedia to other candidates for the same seat.
Using the Google test, as of 9/3/06 "Rachel Treichler" gets 24,100 hits on Google. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wiki14840 (talk • contribs) .
- Not trying to be partisan, but I didn't see those other pages, so I am not trying to single your candidate out. (Some of the others would qualify anyways, since they have held office). I was unaware that there was a debate regarding candidates going on. The last time I read WP:BIO it said only office holders, and this has been the consensus on WP:AFD recently. Leuko 05:14, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
- I can't see on the Wikipedia:External links page where it specifically prohibits linking to the sites for candidates who do not hold elected office. In fact, since the webpage for the candidate is a siginificant source of information on the campaign, inclusion of these links is permissible at least under the occassional use language. It does seem as though the policy as Leuko expresses it is biased in favor of incumbents and against "third-party" challengers specifically, as these candidates are less likely to be professional politicians. If the exlusion of campaign liks were carried to its logical con clusion, then there would have been no link for Ralph Nader, Ross Perot or Michael Bloomberg as neither was an officeholder when they first began campaigning. I'll restore the links for Treichler in the interests of inclusivity. Please discuss here before reverting. DJ Silverfish 15:41, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
