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I saw this pop up over at WP:GAN, and my first thought upon looking at the article was that it was really a list rather than an article; should this be tried at WP:FLC instead? Wizardman 11:58, 22 June 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Wizardman, Personally, I would say that this is an article rather than a list, as it contains prose, although I will admit that I am not too familiar with MOS:LIST. I think the better question is whether, in general, articles about the electoral history of a person are considered articles or lists. --1990'sguy (talk) 16:36, 22 June 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
@Wizardman and 1990'sguy: In my opinion, articles about electoral history should be considered as articles, and not lists. But the issue is that most of the articles just list the votes and percentage There should be prose for every election or campaign. For instance, I recently cam across a brilliant article "Political career of John C. Breckinridge", which is somewhat like electoral history. Also, I recently expanded Electoral history of Bill Clinton; which is based on the ides that each campaign/election should have a prose with the election data. Since this article is a GA, I don't think there should be any confusion on the same. Thanks! – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 15:20, 12 August 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]
This lead is incredibly short for an article of this length, much less for a GA nomination. Though the article looks pretty well–kept and factual, you could definitely talk about everything he ran for and the outcomes for the more important elections (a.k.a Presidential elections.)
"Ronald Reagan accomplished in 1966 what US Senator William F. Knowland in 1958 and former Vice-President Richard M. Nixon in 1962 had tried: he was elected, defeating two-term governor Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, and was sworn in on January 2, 1967." --> No source
"Aided by the Iran hostage crisis and a worsening economy at home marked by high unemployment and inflation, Reagan won the election in a landslide, receiving the highest number of electoral votes ever won by a non-incumbent presidential candidate." --> No source
I'm sure that the latter part of the sentence is true, but I could not find a reliable source for it, so I had to remove it. --1990'sguy (talk) 18:40, 30 June 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
"The 1980 presidential election marked the beginning of the Reagan Era, and signified a conservative realignment in national politics." --> No source
"No presidential candidate since 1984 then has managed to equal or surpass Reagan's electoral result, nor has any post-1984 Republican candidate managed to match Reagan's electoral performance in the Northeastern United States and in the West Coast states." --> No source
I'm sure this is true, but I could not find a reliable source repeating this, so I removed this. --1990'sguy (talk) 18:41, 30 June 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
See also
"Democratic Party, Reagan was a member of this party early in his life, and was mainly opposed by this party during his political career." --> "Democratic Party, Reagan was a member of this party early in his life, but was mainly opposed by this party during his political career."
I would prefer you remove the red links to any candidates who do not have respective articles, but once again, this is not against any Wikipedia policy (at least that I know of.)
My shortest GA review for a reason. Thanks for the review. @PING me when you have completed it; thanks. Cheers, Carbrera (talk) 20:31, 23 June 2016 (UTC).Reply[reply]
@Carbrera: Thank you for for your comments and for your help. I fixed everything that you told me to fix. --1990'sguy (talk) 18:53, 30 June 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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