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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Tiller54 (talk | contribs) at 22:57, 15 March 2012 (Changing Campaign Website format). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Changing Campaign Website format

I would like to invite other editors to weigh in on a current issue on this page: [1]. I strongly disagree with the changes made to the campaign website's because it makes them not as visable, and could be overlooked, and more importantly, this change is contray to how ALL election page campaign websites are done. My goal is to come to a consensus on this issue. Thank you! America69 (talk) 20:33, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It appears I am not the only editor who agree's with reverting back to the original format:[2]. America69 (talk) 20:36, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I am in agreement with you here as well. This is the way it's done on every other election page, past, present and future and there is no call for a change, nor has there been any discussion about any change. Attempting to force through changes and saying things like "It is not up to me to discuss my changes" and characterising an editor's changes as "your changes" when he is only reverting to the consensus way of doing things and calling for any proposed changes to be discussed beforehand is a very unhelpful way of doing things. Tiller54 (talk) 21:11, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I agree as well. I looked at every senate election page and the only instance I saw using the proposed format was recently added by an anonymous IP address to the Wisconsin election page. That was done by an IP that I warned 3 days ago for a separate act of vandalism, and I have since reverted that edit on the Wisconsin page. It's a very clear consensus that the collapsible box is not the correct way to display campaign sites. Rxguy (talk) 21:22, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
As they all fail WP:ELNO#19 and most will be dead in 12 moths time, it is good compromise to have them in a collapsed table. Mtking (edits) 21:38, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Your argument doesn't really help your case, in fact, it actually hurts it. As the primaries occur the campaign sites of losing candidates should probably be removed and all of them could reasonably be removed after the election as they no longer serve a purpose, and as you said will probably no longer exist. Your solution is to put them out of sight, out of mind. If editors are more likely to not see them with your edit, that means they are less likely to remove them when that time comes, increasing the chances of leaving dead links on these pages. Rxguy (talk) 21:55, 14 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I accept that, in fact WP:ELNO#19 is clear that they should not be listed, so lets just remove them totally now. Mtking (edits) 06:47, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I wouldn't agree with that interpretation Tiller54 (talk) 22:57, 15 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]