Talk:Tamara Millay

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Vandalism?

Ms Millay is both a Missouri and an American politician, and as such deserves listing in both categories. User:Skarl_the_Drummer keeps deleting one of these categories. Admin ruling will be requested. -- Davidkevin (talk) 19:11, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

By all means do request administrative intervention. -- Skarl 19:16, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I created the original article, and have carefully improved it several times. Your accusation of "bad faith" is itself bad faith, gamesmanship, not legitimate. If anyone is guilty of bad faith, it's you. You're degrading the article by removing relevant information, not improving it. -- Davidkevin (talk) 19:32, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I hadn't realised you owned the article. My apologies. -- Skarl 19:57, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I don't claim ownership and don't object to good faith edits which improve the article. Given the attention I've given it, however, I greatly resent charges of "bad faith" made to game the system. -- Davidkevin (talk) 20:03, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Accusations of vandalism when my edits to the article were valid and within Wikipedia's rules on categorisation? Not on, old bean. I will also note, in light of your accusation of "gaming", that you were logged out when making your first revert of my removal of the surplus stub template. Interesting, that. -- Skarl 20:15, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, my computer timed-out because I hadn't written something in that window recently enough and didn't notice until after I made the entry, whereupon I logged back in and corrected the correction so that it would properly be credited. (How horrible of me!) So you were violating AGF from the start.

I'm done with you for now. You're just goading and indulging in errant smart-assery, hoping to get a rise out of me. I await an admin. -- Davidkevin (talk) 20:24, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, I'm just pointing out what's actually happened here. -- Skarl 20:25, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Third opinion The Category:American politicians inclusion criteria says that, when possible, pages should be moved to subcategories broken down by state, in order to avoid overpopulating the category. Thus, I think it's okay for us just to list Ms. Millay in the Missouri politicians category. Ray (talk) 22:50, 6 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Notability?

Being a failed third party candidate with no other source of notability makes me wonder whether this page passes WP:N, particularly WP:POLITICIAN. As there seem to be a number of editors interested in this page, I don't see the need to give it an ugly tag as of yet ... Ray (talk) 14:59, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not failed; she won election to the office of Marshal of the City of Greendale, Missouri, so that makes her notable. -- Davidkevin (talk) 20:47, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, so, evidently not failed. But is local office notable? I.e. did she garner significant press coverage for doing so? Ray (talk) 00:57, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There is indeed a notability question here. For example, election of Marshal in a small municipality (in this case one with a population < 1000) does not meet WP:POLITICIAN, nevermind that there's no source. Failed election bids, of which there are many discussed in the article do not qualify either. The notability tag is entirely appropriate. Please do not remove unless the issue is demonstrably resolved. Thanks, Agricola44 (talk) 17:16, 30 September 2011 (UTC).[reply]

entabulate?

I'm thinking of replacing the prose listing of vote counts with a table:

Year	Office	Vote count	Vote share	Source
1996	Congress, First District	4,137	2.02%	[1]
1998	US Senate	31,876	2.02%	[2]
2000	Congress, First District	2,253	1.13%	[3]
2002	US Senate	18,345	0.97%	[4]
2004	Congress, Ninth District	3,228	1.07%	[5]
2006	Congress, Second District	5,923	2.05%	[6]
2008	Congress, Ninth District	8,108	2.52%	^[1]

Objections? —Tamfang (talk) 10:35, 22 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

^ Race results from Missouri Secretary of State website

[1] Race results from Missouri Secretary of State website

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