Talk:2016 United States Senate election in South Dakota: Difference between revisions

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Hi. I'm Kurt Evans, a former candidate for this office. I know very little about Wikipedia protocol, and I'd appreciate it if someone who knows more would contact me at Kurt.Evans@live.com so we can correspond by email. Among other things, I'd like to discuss the actions of users "ALPolitico" and "Dane2007" pertaining to this article.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.249.248.92 (talk) 19:00, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@216.249.248.92: Hello Kurt - Welcome to Wikipedia. It is helpful if you share your concerns here on the talk page as Wikipedia uses conensus for contested changes. If you share your concerns here it allows other users to give input and they may agree with you. Also, your disclosure that you were a former candidate for this office may present a conflict of interest, so while not required I would say it is recommended for any changes to be reviewed to ensure they maintain a neutral point of view. Thank you for taking your time to express your concerns. -- Dane2007 ^talk 19:10, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your response. I've never "Declared" for this office except pending a ballot-access lawsuit. What's your rationale for moving the reference to the lawsuit into my biographical information? Also, what's your rationale for removing information about my past campaigns and what kind of teacher I am? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.249.246.80 (talk) 19:36, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@216.249.248.92: I have cleaned up the article a bit. After re-reviewing the edits and the layout of other candidates, I have reformatted and put back in most of the information you had contributed before. I have worded it to be more neutral (basically to match the way other candidates are listed) and I added a note about the declaration pending the ballot access lawsuit. -- Dane2007 ^talk 20:00, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not trying to offend you, but I really don't see how you could consider this an improvement, either in terms of information or in terms of aesthetics. Now it looks like my party affiliation is contingent on the lawsuit. It also looks like I was an independent candidate in 2002 and 2014 (I wasn't), and excluding the hypertext links to other Wikipedia articles, there's no documentation of my candidacy in either of those two races. Writing my biographical information into a complete sentence is inconsistent with the rest of the article, and you haven't told me your rationale for removing information about what kind of teacher I am. Bonus trivia: The reference numbers within the text of the article should be placed after, not before, any form of punctuation except an em dash.

And as the final punch line, I haven't been an officially recognized candidate for this office since 2002. I came here today to update the page because we lost the lawsuit, only to find that "ALPolitico" (whose mother apparently dropped him on his head when he was a baby) had gotten my editing privileges blocked. Please file some kind of complaint against him on my behalf. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.249.246.80 (talk) 20:44, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

As I found a reference that states that the case is declined, i've just removed the information. I removed what type of teacher you are on the basis that it doesn't add any due weight based on the sources. -- Dane2007 ^talk 20:55, 15 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. That's much better.