Talk:2020 Maryland's 7th congressional district special election

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Declined candidates

@Reywas92: Please give other editors a chance to add citations where they are needed before you delete text from the article. That is the whole point of having Template:Citation needed. Please also try not to be so brusque in your edit summaries. Assuming good faith is one of the guiding principles here. We're all trying to improve the article. -- Pemilligan (talk) 21:33, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

These sections aren't needed at all, what's the point of listing people not involved in the election? I highly doubt sources even exist at all; some talking head speculated a bunch of random names so they were put into the potential section. When the deadline passed, they were moved to the declined section and the speculation sources were stripped. They should have be removed in the first place. If they're not involved in the election, their absence from the Declared or Withdrew sections would make it obvious to all that they did not actually run. Reywas92^Talk 21:39, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

You're entitled to your opinion on the worthiness of the "Declined" section. I think who considered running but decided not to is part of the story of this special election. I'm surprised that you doubt sources exist since I'd already restored one with a source; I've now restored three more; and there were another four that you didn't delete because they were already sourced. The names weren't added to the article just because "some talking head speculated a bunch of random names"--there are reliable sources being used in this article that quote people who were considering running. I hope in the future you will consider handling unsourced text by using Template:Citation needed before deleting things. -- Pemilligan (talk) 04:45, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

@Reywas92: I've reverted your latest deletion with the addition to both candidates of a reliable source where they said that they were deciding whether or not to run. Please stop disrupting this article. -- Pemilligan (talk) 14:44, 4 December 2019 (UTC)

Standards for endorsements?

What standards are their for listing endorsements? I reverted the IP-user addition of * [[Dr. Francisco Ward]], President of Baltimore County Medical Society <ref name="Dr. Ward Endorsement"/> given that Wikipedia significance of the endorser doesn't appear to be established; the organization is misidentified (there is a Dr. Ward who is president of the Baltimore County Medical Association); and there is no proper source (nor could I find one). -- Pemilligan (talk) 18:37, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Kim Klacik vs. Kimberly Klacik

@Billybob2002: Your edit summary includes "she is referred to on her website that way". If you mean her campaign web site (https://kimkforcongress.com/), while the graphics use "Kim Klacik", most of the text uses "Kimberly Klacik". I can't find any other source cited in this article that uses "Kim Klacik" at all. Among them, the Board of Elections web site (https://elections.maryland.gov/), which seems pretty official, exclusively uses "Kimberly Klacik". Google searches for one term while excluding the other turn up vastly more results using "Kimberly Klacik" than "Kim Klacik", whether limited to news sources or not limited. In the months that this article has been worked on, I don't think anyone else has used "Kim Klacik" before today. I'm not sure what makes you certain about this. -- Pemilligan (talk) 22:32, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

Write-in candidate

@Scrabble Scribble: In reply to your edit with the summary, "Hard to justify having a "write-in" candidate who received 0 write-ins", I restored Jason Hale in the election box despite his getting no votes because

1. He is included in the official results from the state elections board, which is the cited source for the table; and,
2. In Maryland, write-in candidates are people who have filed with the elections board for that status. (Votes for non-filed write-in candidates make up the "Other Write-Ins" result.) It's not like they just randomly picked name to include in the official results.

-- Pemilligan (talk) 16:28, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

@Pemilligan: Disagree. We are not bound here by the election board or we should not be. If the person filed in for being a write-in candidate, but received no votes he has nothing to do in the table that lists candidates with received votes. Makes no common sense. This is my opinion.Scrabble Scribble (talk) 18:12, 14 May 2020 (UTC)