Talk:Timeline of the 2012 United States presidential election/Archive 1

Archive 1

When will the official national conventions of the Green and Consitution Parties be?

We have the dates for the Democratic, Republican, and Libertarian conventions. J390 (talk) 18:39, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

The Constitution Party Convention is set for April 2012 in Nashville, but last I heard, the specific dates in April had not been set. The site and dates for the Green Party Convention have apparently not yet been determined.--JayJasper (talk) 18:55, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

Proposal for improving readableness

What do you think about highlighting important events such as debates, announcements, rejections, conventions, surveys etc. by using specific colors? That would help the readers find a golden thread through the whole schedule, which only consists of a succession of single items.

PS: I had already marked some events, however my work, which took me about an hour, has been destroyed - twice. Leucojum vernum (talk) 12:25, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

What if it was divided into relevant sections instead? Such as Election Dates, Candidate Actions, etc? It wouldn't all be chronological anymore, but it'd suffice for what you want to do. --→ talk page (JakeBathman) 15:30, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Terry and Karger

Should we really be including this guys on the timeline when they are never going to appear on any sort of primary ballot? Afterall, Wikipedia does have notability and relevancy requirements. Frank0051 (talk) 15:42, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

They are listed here in keeping with standard applied to other related election pages, which is that all candidates that meet the notability guideline for wikipedia are listed. Besides, it's too early right now to know for certain which candidates will and will not appear on any primary ballots.--NextUSprez (talk) 18:38, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

If you say so on the notability requirements then fine, lets leave them on. But, I think it is safe to say they won't appear on any primary ballot, haha. Frank0051 (talk) 19:12, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Both Karger and Terry are on the ballot for the New Hampshire primary.--JayJasper (talk) 20:47, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

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Where is Huntsman in your timeline? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.202.162.182 (talk) 19:33, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

See May & June. He's also mentioned several times as a debate participant.--JayJasper (talk) 20:40, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Inauguration day

Are we sure that Inauguration day will be on Sunday 20 January 2013? On the last two occasions when 20 January has fallen on Sunday (1985, 1957) Inauguration day was moved to 21 January. Is there are reason to think that won't happen this time? --Philip Stevens (talk) 21:38, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

This, which appears to be official, states the federal observance of the inaugaration will be the following day, Jan. 21, but does not specifically say the the ceremony itself will be moved - it only says "Inauguration Day.....falls on a Sunday." I could not find reliable sources from a Google search that stated the ceremony will be held on the the 21st. Until such sources can be found to verify that the inauguration will be held on a different date than than Jan. 20, it is best to leave it as is.--JayJasper (talk) 20:11, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

In those years there were two inaugurations. One on the 20th and one on the 21st. The 1985 ceremonies were both covered on TV, and the "informal" photo of Ronald Reagan taking the oath of office on a Sunday was on the cover of both Time and Newsweek.Ericl (talk)

I don't recall this happening in 1985, got a reference link for it? -- Alyas Grey : talk 07:28, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

On the US Senate's website, two dates are given for the 1985 Inauguration.[1] --Philip Stevens (talk) 18:58, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Question re citations

Many cited sources are linked via Webcite, which doesn't always work, with the original URL given as a subsidiary. This makes little sense to me. Black Max (talk) 03:09, 9 January 2012 (UTC) Black Max

Looked at cleaning the page up some...

but it's a total trainwreck, and it seems like it would be impossible to keep up with folks just slapping up horrible formatting and unnecessary or incorrect information. I'd also like to point out that this is a TIMELINE, not a resutls page. Link to the results all you want, but it just clutters up a timeline.-- Alyas Grey : talk 06:38, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Heck, I went ahead and did it. Just keep in mind that it's a timeline and not a summary. -- Alyas Grey : talk 07:26, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

A timeline includes important events and how they turned out. A person who didn't know any better wouldn't known what the heck was going on. You may wish to just have the winners listed, but some results are extremely important to the legibility of the piece. To some extent it IS a summery. We need more stuff like Trump's endorsement of Romney and the like. It's important.Ericl (talk) 22:08, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Things like major endorsements are fine, but the primaries themselves already have dedicated pages. The information is redundant and makes the page look like crap. If you insist on putting results on the page, at least make them look good. --70.145.76.243 (talk) 21:17, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Following standard Wikipedia style would also be appreciated. Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 05:06, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

There are WP pages for all 57 states (joking)

There are Wikipedia pages for the races in all USA states and providences, but if you just put up a name in brackets without doing your research on the respective pages, then it appears as a WP page that doesn't exist (and will never be created). Hence I removed the double-brackets from the State of Washington. Also, it becomes somewhat complex to follow a state race to form their delegate team: caucus, primary, final-final-state primary, etc. My point is that I agree with other comments here.

You may also be interested to read the very interesting article in the Sacramento Bee about the importance of the Republican race in the state of Washington (started yesterday, Saturday) but is only the start of their appropriately complex process. Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 13:26, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

For tomorrow (Saturday) in addition to the 40 delegates in Kansas, it is said that Romney campaigned to gain the nine delegate votes in each of 1) Guam; 2) US Virgin Islands; and 3) Northern Mariana Islands. The other two territories vote later: 4) America Samoa on March 13; and 5) Puerto Rico on March 18. That makes 55 voting areas. I think, Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 05:02, 10 March 2012 (UTC)

Timeline

Add Roseanne for the Green Party nomination J390 (talk) 04:36, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Got it done.--NextUSprez (talk) 20:34, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Merging all U.S. states presidential primary and election articles

You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Republican Party presidential primaries, 2012#Merging all U.S. states presidential primary and election articles into one article for each state. The proposal is to merge all articles on different state primaries (both democratic and republican) and the articles on the presidential election (where such exist) in to one single article for each state. See United States presidential election in New Hampshire, 2008 It is possible to see how the 2008 and 2012 articles will look like if this large merges was completed. This issue have been discussed for a month on this talkpage without a clear consensus and the merge proposal is so massive that it would be good to get a wide range of editors to comment on it. Jack Bornholm (talk) 17:01, 21 May 2012 (UTC)