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Apinchofspence (talk·contribs) This user has declared a connection. (Marianne Williamson 2024 Presidential campaign volunteer)
The proposal failed. Additionally, there was no consensus on merging the two campaign articles together - perhaps that should be discussed on those articles' talk pages. casualdejekyll20:25, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
I propose merging Marianne Williamson 2024 presidential campaign into Marianne Williamson and leaving behind a redirect. I think that the content in the campaign can easily be explained within the biographical article for the foreseeable future, and a merger would not cause any article-size or weighting problems in the candidate’s main article. It is not clear whether the campaign will obtain enough note down the road to warrant its own article, but it is not useful to have a stub article at this moment. I am not opposed to a future spinning-off/re-creation of the campaign article if there later becomes sufficiently more to write about the campaign, but for now I believe the stub-article on the campaign serves no use and there is not enough to expand the article beyond what is now contained in it. I am in the process of making similar requests for some other 2024 campaign articles.
SecretName101 (talk) 16:12, 8 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, the campaign page is a pretty full and sourced article. Williamson is already near double-digits in polls, is receiving continued media coverage, and the major candidates, Biden and Kennedy, have campaign pages. No need for a merge at this point (if she drops out of the race before the primaries a merge would be appropriate, but as of now she's one of the declared candidates receiving reputably sourced notice). Randy Kryn (talk) 13:06, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Biden and Kennedy argument is an Wikipedia:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS argument. And if you may have noticed, I also opened a discussion of the same move for Kennedy's article. Her campaign having reputably sourced information available is rationale to mention it on Wikipedia, but is not necessarily a rationale to support its coverage on Wikipedia to currently warrant a solo article. SecretName101 (talk) 22:41, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Why are the only edits for this IP before or since pretty much opposition to all merger proposals to 2024 campaign articles? Not sure if this was single-use IP puppeting or not. SecretName101 (talk) 07:08, 26 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Wait until the primaries begin or when she drops out. The article looks good enough to merit its own article in the meantime. Not to mention in some polls she is polling higher than 5% and below 10% which is impressive given she's running against an incumbent. --TDKR Chicago 101 (talk) 19:54, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I think it's too early to tell if her campaign won't get traction and would rather we wait to see if she is in any debates or wins any primaries before merging. Informant16 (talk) 23:40, 13 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Plan is for there not to be any party debates, so answer to that appears to be "no". And note that several candidates who made it to the debate stage in the 2020 Dem primary do not have campaign articles anymore. It seems that we acknowledge that many campaigns that make it to the debate stage do not have a need for solo articles. Almost a WP:NOTNEWS situation SecretName101 (talk) 03:27, 15 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
You could also, alternatively, include her congressional bid and political positions and call such an article "Political career of Marianne Williamson" SecretName101 (talk) 04:05, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Can a coverage of a campaign exist independent of a candidate?
That aside, notability is an argument for inclusion in the project. But not an argument for the necessity of a spun-off article.
I contend that all that is contained in the spun-off article, for the time being and foreseeable future, suffices as a subsection in her article. SecretName101 (talk) 21:52, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose the campaign is notable, there are large numbers of reliable sources that talk about it and her candidacy is routinely included in virtually every poll taken regarding the primary since she announced her candidacy.XavierGreen (talk) 19:06, 21 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Again, an argument for why it is notable that she has run for president. But not for why that cannot sufficiently be explored as a sub-section of the main article, or (alternatively) in an article that combines both this and her previous campaign. SecretName101 (talk) 21:54, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Oppose Unlike RFK Jr's campaign for the Democratic nomination, I don't see any real media traction for Williamson, other than the fact that she was technically the first to enter the 2024 field. However, it is my belief in inclusionism and I generally feel that presidential campaigns of any note deserve their own pages. Her 2020 campaign has one, even though it polled lower and received less coverage than 2024, though one could argue she actually had some kind of chance then. For this reason, I oppose the merger, though not strongly. PickleG13 (talk) 20:52, 24 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Strongly Oppose Her campaign is just one of two that are against incumbent president Biden and she has received enough media and polling support too. Biden and Kennedy have their own campaign articles too. If her article gets deleted, it would look heavily misogynistic, because Biden's and Kennedy's are left intact and hers gets merged. Glasperlenspieler (talk) 12:13, 4 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose There is sufficient material and sourcing to spin this off from the main biography. Williamson may be a minor candidate, but her polling is consistent, and she has qualified for debates in the past, which makes her a legitimate contender. I would also oppose combining the 2020 and 2024 articles into one. For joke candidates like Kanye West, that discussion of merging articles makes more sense. Not here. Zaathras (talk) 21:13, 5 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Many campaign pages exist for the republican nomination that are polling smaller percentages than Marianne is, and it would be unfair to remove any of these pages. All political candidates should have their own campaign pages, especially when they are constantly polling higher than 1 or 2 percent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:638:1210:EDAF:EBE9:158D:B162 (talk) 05:50, 8 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I've also proposed similar mergers for a large number of GOP candidates. And polling 5 to 10% in a three-candidate race is very different than polling similar numbers in a far larger field. Poll numbers are not a straight-shot comparison here. SecretName101 (talk) 00:21, 14 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@BD2412 A proposal needs to be formally closed by a non-contributor to the dicussion before a tag can be removed. Please don't unilaterally making decisions that are not your judgement to issue. SecretName101 (talk) 06:56, 26 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
If you want to waste administrator time on these clear outcomes, go ahead. However, many of these propositions with the same discussion trajectories have been removed from their various pages by other editors, sometimes weeks ago, without a peep from you about it. BD2412T14:40, 26 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
There's nothing wrong with the current image IMO, but if you have something in mind that satisfies the Wikipedia's WP:NFC policies, feel free to suggest one. Zaathras (talk) 02:59, 2 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]