Talk:1990 Nebraska gubernatorial election

Photos
I have not included photos of the candidates, or of other individuals mentioned (e.g. Kerrey), in this article. In particular, I haven't used the official Senate photo of Nelson. Although the photo isn't dated, I suspect that it was taken ca. 2010, some twenty years after this election. I'd like photos of these people to illustrate the article, but they need to be photos showing how the subjects looked around 1990, not decades later. — Ammodramus (talk) 14:25, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Convention is to use photos of candidates. It doesn't matter what the candidate looked like during the election. If there is an image of Nelson around 1990, it should certainly be used but in the absence of one an image taken a decade later will be just fine. MB298 (talk) 21:35, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the note. Could you point me to a discussion in which consensus was established on this convention?  If the consensus wasn't strong, or if was reached in a discussion with relatively few participants, I'd like to try to re-open the question.
 * Just to state my argument briefly, I think that it'd mislead the reader to illustrate an election article with a photo of a candidate taken at a time when their appearance had changed significantly. A candidate's looks might well have had some bearing on how people had voted—see Kennedy vs. Nixon, for instance.  Now suppose that Oswald had missed, and that in the absence of an earlier photo we'd had to illustrate the article on the 1960 election with a photo of JFK as he appeared in 1980, with gray receding hair, wrinkles, and multiple chins.  Better no picture than one that's so different from the images seen by voters in the election under discussion. — Ammodramus (talk) 22:07, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm not aware of any such discussion, as it hasn't been such a notable topic to be discussed, however there are several examples of using present-day images of past politicians, for example see List of Governors of New Mexico. The image used to illustrate Toney Anaya, who served during the 1980s, is from 2008 and the one to illustrate David Cargo, who served during the 1960s, is from 2006, for lack of an image taken during that time period. Another example would be Idaho gubernatorial election, 1994, where the image of Phil Batt was taken in 2010 and Larry EchoHawk from sometime recent (it doesn't give an exact date). I've been looking through the Reagan contact sheets in an attempt to find photos of governors taken during that time period. I'd be open to opening an RfC in order to discuss this matter. MB298 (talk) 22:17, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

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Reversion of map change
I've reverted a change in the Democratic-primary-results map. The new map (which I've reverted) arguably presents more information: whereas the old one (the one I've restored) only showed the plurality winner in each county, the new one attempted to break it down further by percentages. I've placed both below: the old one on the left, the new on the right.

I think that the new one attempts to present too much detail, and does so at the expense of clarity. In particular, I suspect that it'll be close to useless for color-blind readers. In the course of creating the old map, I sought feedback from a color-blind Wikipedian, who emphasized that differences of brightness were the surest way to make it legible for such readers. The new map, with its pastel shades of varying brightness within each color, almost certainly fails that criterion. — Ammodramus (talk) 18:21, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

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