User talk:Mikeblas/Archives/2020/August
Hey, I noticed you cut back on the endorsements on the page for the 2020 Miami-Dade mayoral election. While on the surface this was a good edit, since this is a local election, many people who do not currently have a Wikipedia article have clout in local politics, such as County Commissioners and state representatives and local mayors. This has led to the nightmare scenario where I now have to manually sift through each deleted endorsement to deem notability or not, and re-find their reference since many got deleted in the process. I suppose in fairness with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive_164#RfC_on_inclusion_criteria_for_lists_of_political_endorsements and because I don't want to spend forever reworking on the page, I will exclude municipal councilmen and vice-mayors since they aren't as notable as larger municipal and county officials. Thanks, but please do be more careful. Curbon7 (talk) 22:46, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
- The decision at the RfC says that "The endorser must have an article or be unquestionably entitled to one". This is a pretty strong standard. Check out WP:NPOL, which says that state-wide politicians are notable, but politicians with lesser breadth must meet the WP:GNG. Maybe there are some exceptions, but I think the endorsements I edited were not notable (or not referenced) and appropriately removed. There shouldn't be much of "a nightmare" either way. If a reference should be brought back, then the reference can simply be copied and pasted from the diff where it was deleted. I think it's pretty clear that people like Yioset De La Cruz and Manny Cid don't meat WP:NPOL or WP:GNG, shouldn't be recorded as endorsements per the RfC, and stand by my edit. -- Mikeblas (talk) 16:38, 20 August 2020 (UTC)