Talk:2024 San Francisco mayoral election
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List of candidates[edit]
Per the city's election candidate website: "Candidates are listed as “pending” until they have completed, and filed, all nomination documents and have paid the filing fee, if applicable. Once these documents are filed and the filing fee has been paid, the qualification status is changed to “qualified”. Candidate lists become final after the nomination deadline for each office." Simply filing paperwork does not mean that a candidate who appears at this time as "pending" would appear on the ballot. Wikipedia is WP:NOTCATALOG. Until a candidate is either covered in a secondary source or deemed "qualified" by the county, I see no point in including them in the article. BriefEdits (talk) 15:58, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
- @SFmayor2025: Please discuss any further concerns on this page. Furthermore, if you have any connection to the candidate that you keep adding to the article, please declare it to prevent WP:COIEDIT. -- BriefEdits (talk) 16:03, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
- @BriefEdits London Breed, Ashsa Safai and Daniel Lurie are also pending. No one can pay the fees and be officially declared until next year. So you need to remove the other three names until June 11, 2024 SFmayor2025 (talk) 16:40, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
- @SFmayor2025: If enough Wikipedia:Reliable sources deem that they warrant coverage, then that is usually enough for inclusion. It's the same reason why we don't include everybody who has filed to be a presidential candidate in an article. For example, 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidates says that "Over 1,200 people filed with the FEC declaring that they were candidates; however, very few actually made the effort to get their names on the ballot anywhere". And you do not see more than 1200 names in that article. Again, per WP:NOTCATALOG, Wikipedia does not aim to be a collection of all information ipso facto. It's reasonable to assume that an article about an election should only include the candidates who are on the ballot, with the exception of those covered by Wikipedia:Reliable sources (which all the names listed now have been, even those not running).
- tldr: If they are neither notable enough for coverage by an independent source (e.g. newspaper) or are on the ballot itself, they don't warrant inclusion in this article. -- BriefEdits (talk) 17:34, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
- You do understand that newspapers are bias correct? I have spoken with several mayoral candidates and only those who are rich or are already politicians are getting the coverage by the media. The other San Francisco Mayoral Candidates are everyday people who want to change the system and make things better for the residents of San Francisco. Wiki is supposed to even the odds and give a voice to those who are unheard. I know Shahram Shariati has made an effort and has reached out to several media sources asking to be interviewed. The Richmond Review has agreed to interview him, but it is the owner of the paper that has the final say in what goes in the newspapers. SFmayor2025 (talk) 02:40, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
- Refer to WP:RIGHTGREATWRONGS and WP:SOAPBOX. It is not Wikipedia's job to advocate. We can further this discussion once and if he either gets coverage or gets on the ballot. For general reading, refer to Wikipedia:Notability. I hope this clarifies any further questions. -- BriefEdits (talk) 23:01, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
- You do understand that newspapers are bias correct? I have spoken with several mayoral candidates and only those who are rich or are already politicians are getting the coverage by the media. The other San Francisco Mayoral Candidates are everyday people who want to change the system and make things better for the residents of San Francisco. Wiki is supposed to even the odds and give a voice to those who are unheard. I know Shahram Shariati has made an effort and has reached out to several media sources asking to be interviewed. The Richmond Review has agreed to interview him, but it is the owner of the paper that has the final say in what goes in the newspapers. SFmayor2025 (talk) 02:40, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
- @BriefEdits London Breed, Ashsa Safai and Daniel Lurie are also pending. No one can pay the fees and be officially declared until next year. So you need to remove the other three names until June 11, 2024 SFmayor2025 (talk) 16:40, 10 December 2023 (UTC)