Talk:2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois

2010 United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois was nominated as a Social sciences and society good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (December 23, 2015). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

Elections and Referendums

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Elections and Referendums, an ongoing effort to improve the quality of, expand upon and create new articles relating to elections, electoral reform and other aspects of democratic decision-making. For more information, visit our project page.Elections and ReferendumsWikipedia:WikiProject Elections and ReferendumsTemplate:WikiProject Elections and ReferendumsElections and Referendums articles

United States: Government Low‑importance

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by WikiProject U.S. Government (assessed as Low-importance).

U.S. Congress

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject U.S. Congress, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the United States Congress on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.U.S. CongressWikipedia:WikiProject U.S. CongressTemplate:WikiProject U.S. CongressU.S. Congress articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.
	This article has not yet been assigned a subject. The options are: "Person", "People", "Place", "Thing", or "Events".

Polling[edit]

someone needs to update the polls in here for the 10th, 11th, 14th and 17th. I know someone has been for the 10th and 17th races, but the 11th and 14th need to be updated too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.173.62.185 (talk) 11:55, 14 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Teri Newman[edit]

Suggesting merging Teri Newman into this article because it fails WP:POLITICIAN and WP:BIO as a stand-alone article. Arbor832466 (talk) 15:45, 6 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

David Ratowitz[edit]

Same rationale as above :) Arbor832466 (talk) 15:56, 6 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

MERGE and redirect. I added some necessary links to the article in the meantime, but I can't see any reason it should exist. Nothing but a rehash of the campaign website. As I first posted on the articles' Talk page: This appears to be yet another article for a person not notable in his own right, but only in connection with an event. Therefore, Wikipedia guidelines state he shouldn't have his own article. Furthermore, there are no External links (Project Vote Smart, FEC, Open Secrets) which would add non-partisan information helpful to a reader. imo it's campaign literature, not an encyclopedia article. Not every candidate, or even nominee, has some 'right' to have a rah-rah campaign site. We have election articles for a reason. Flatterworld (talk) 15:48, 9 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have added the usual External links and a link to the actual election article as well until the Merge is done - which the creator of this article 'forgot' to include. This is the sort of blatant electioneering article which should never have been created in the first place. It's an insult to the reputation of Wikipedia. What part of 'encyclopedic' isn't clear? Flatterworld (talk) 16:03, 9 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Illinois's 17th congressional district election, 2010[edit]

This is the only District (Illinois's 17th congressional district election, 2010) which has its own election article, and I see no particular reason for that. There are lots of close races, and I see no reason why the material has to be duplicated. I've just spent a lot of time updating each article so they're back in sync, which is the usual problem when an additional article is created. What was especially irritating was that the Green Party candidate wasn't even mentioned in the lede or included in the infobox. He's on the ballot, so ignoring him is simply wrong. Flatterworld (talk) 18:55, 9 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

IL-10 Oct 15, 2010 We Ask America poll[edit]

I removed the duplicate August 30–September 2, 2010 Anzalone Liszt Research poll from IL-10 and also removed the October 15, 2010 We Ask America poll. The crosstabs on that poll show a 135% representation in the Democrats column leading me to believe the data is questionable. Cheers Cardinal91 (talk) 19:31, 17 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Final Results[edit]

Someone needs to update this article to include the final results and such. Please do that ASAP. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.173.62.185 (talk) 22:24, 4 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

For what it's worth, officially Illinois has to wait until at least November 19, 2010 for absentee ballots to arrive; they count as long as they are postmarked by November 1 or 2, depending on the county. See October 25 2010 Press Release from the State Board of Elections. --Closeapple (talk) 01:07, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I think we need to add it now, its already been added for the 8th and we need to add it to the rest of the races. Can someone please to it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Politics2012 (talk • contribs) 22:04, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 2 external links on United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, 2010. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add {{cbignore}} after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add {{nobots|deny=InternetArchiveBot}} to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.

Y An editor has reviewed this edit and fixed any errors that were found.

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—^{cyberbot II}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 01:36, 29 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Success! --1990'sguy (talk) 16:16, 1 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 13 external links on United States House of Representatives elections in Illinois, 2010. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add {{cbignore}} after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add {{nobots|deny=InternetArchiveBot}} to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.

N An editor has determined that the edit contains an error somewhere. Please follow the instructions below and mark the |checked= to true

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—^{cyberbot II}_{Talk to my owner:Online} 22:08, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

In the order above, archived URLs #1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, and 12 were archived successfully. However, the rest failed. --1990'sguy (talk) 16:21, 1 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]