Talk:2008 United States Senate election in Michigan

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Bart Baron[edit]

In monitoring the Michigan Secretary of State web site's candidates list, which is still unofficial at this point, Bart Baron is still not listed. His web site still states that he is running. I'm waiting until the list becomes official before I demote him in the candidates' list to "failed to qualify". Steelbeard1 (talk) 23:33, 28 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Candidate listings[edit]

While an argument has been made for limiting the number of candidates in the infobox, the same reasoning does not apply to listings of candidates elsewhere in an article. The reasoning that has been accepted by the community is that the info-box would be too cluttered and the appearance would be compromised by including multiple candidates. None of this applies to accurately and objectively listing candidates elsewhere in the body of the article. Repeated attempts to omit listings of balloted candidates elsewhere in an article serves no purpose other than promoting political bias.--Libertyguy (talk) 04:32, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There is no political bias. All of the candidates are listed in the general election results. But the major candidates are the ones that get a significant amount of the vote. Most of them didn't even get 1% of the vote. Give me a break. Are you really going to keep arguing with me?--Jerzeykydd (talk) 08:21, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes. There is no reason why a list of the candidates should only include the ones with the most votes. Three more names does nothing to harm this listing. I could revert this again, but this is becoming an edit war, and that's not the point, this does however bias however indicate a deviation from neutrality."Give me a break" is not a reason. --Libertyguy (talk) 15:25, 3 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This is not controversial. The article originally had a section called “Candidates” which listed all of them. Jerzeykydd needs to justify removing them from the list, not the other way around. The NPOV template only complicates things, since I can no longer undo this bad edit until the dispute is resolved.173.167.235.5 (talk) 20:31, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Revert to include all candidates in the list. Jerzeykydd asserts that candidates should only be listed if they reach a vote threshold. This assertion doesn’t apply to a list of candidates in a section called “candidates.” Notability criteria needs to be met for articles, not mention in an article. The topic of the article is an election, and these candidates are contestants in said election. So there inclusion is appropriate to the subject matter. Listing a name does not amount to an undue emphasis on minor players, so this does not amount to an NPOV push.--Redandready (talk) 01:16, 13 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

There being no rebuttal of reasons to list all five balloted candidates, and only a single objection, the consensus is to have a complete list.--Libertyguy (talk) 02:53, 10 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like there was a discussion and this issue was resolved for this article. I noticed and corrected selective partial listings of candidates in some of the other election articles.--24.231.230.62 (talk) 02:26, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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