Talk:2013 Minneapolis mayoral election

A fact from 2013 Minneapolis mayoral election appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 June 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a pizza party resulted in no one receiving the DFL endorsement for mayor of Minneapolis this year?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2013/June.

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List of candidates

User:LP-mn replaced the bulleted list of candidates and the gallery section with a sortable list. I like the idea of having a sortable list for these purposes (it'll be easier to see just how many candidates are DFLers, for example) but I think such a list should include any/all pictures of candidates that I'm working on acquiring and not include candidate websites, per WP:EL and because all the available websites are listed in the collapsible box under the External links section. Unless there's objection, I'm going to revert the list form for now with the eventual goal of remaking the list with the aforementioned features. BobAmnertiopsis ∴_ChatMe! 21:57, 28 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Why bother with changing it? Just wait until you have your info, THEN change it. Speaking for myself, I'm going to add a few more web page links in the mean time.

LP-mn (talk) 23:27, 28 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Let me see if I've got this straight... You changed it at 17:14 (___), THEN you left a message at 23:27 (UTC) stating "Unless there's and objection, I'm _GOING_TO_...", as in future tense (my emphasis added). Illogical. I've reverted it back to the table.

LP-mn (talk) 23:33, 28 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmmm... I may have made a small mistake. 23:27 UTC (Greenwich) minus six hours could be JUST BEFORE 17:14, presumably this is central time. In any case, you still did not leave much time for anyone to raise an objection.

LP-mn (talk) 23:51, 28 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I personally like the way it looks with the sortable list that links to the various candidate websites, and went ahead and edited the link for my own entry, although I'm concerned that might appear to have been a conflict of interest to do so. I was also going to edit another candidate's website entry as well, but their affidavit lists a site that redirects to their political party webpage, so it's not really clear.

I was also thinking of adding another column showing total spent on the campaign, based on data from http://www16.co.hennepin.mn.us/cfrs/search_options.do .. but that will take a bit of manual work. What are thoughts on that? It would be quite informative to sort by campaign contribution amounts or total amount spent, but I would like some consensus that 1) it's a good idea and 2) it's not a conflict of interest for me to do the edits. (Or I can gather the data and provide it to someone else if they'd like)

TroyBenjegerdes (talk) 20:12, 6 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Adding a spending column would be pointless. It would only indicate spending up to that one point in time, when spending continues up to the election. A great deal of the spending occurs in the last 10 days or so before the election. Also, such a listing would tend to favor independent, self-funded candidates over candidates who sought the endorsement of party delegates.

T-bonham (talk) 06:24, 13 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

Post mortem of election BobAmnertiopsis ∴_ChatMe! 00:19, 26 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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