Talk:2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Ohio

Candidates & campaign sites as references
It might be a good idea to come to some sort of centralised consensus on this sort of thing&mdash;I think it's within the letter of WP:SPS but not so much the spirit, as the policy applied literally would grant Wikipedia coverage to anybody who says "I'm running". The existence of independent RSes might be a better razor to apply to election articles, especially since Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Any thoughts? – hysteria18 (talk) 15:42, 24 June 2011 (UTC)


 * (A reply to a discussion started here):


 * I'm sure that you do welcome consensus and discussion, but what you did at United States House of Representatives elections in Connecticut, 2012 was make a major (and in my view, a somewhat controversial) decision by removing material without having made, as far as I could tell, sufficient enough effort to discuss your rationale first and await some type of response, whether in support or opposition of your efforts. Not every edit to Wikipedia need be discussed on talk pages, but ones which may be interpreted as unorthodox certainly warrant discussion.


 * I concede that you may have to know a bit about Connecticut politics to realize that the candidates you removed are not fringe candidates who have nothing but self-published websites. For one thing, Joe Courtney is the incumbent congressman, so his website is certainly valid as a source. However, he has not (as far as I can tell) stated yet if he will run for re-election, so I'll concede that removing his website was correct (at least for now).


 * As for Lisa Wilson-Foley, however, she was a Republican primary candidate for lieutenant governor last year, so I take her for an actual legitimate contender and more than just a name with a self-published website. I have re-added her and her website to the article. However, I have also added a third-party, reliable source citation for her candidacy, which I hope you will find acceptable. For quick reference, here's a link to the source I added:.


 * All the best, --Sgt. R.K. Blue (talk) 05:35, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for responding. I don't think I really have very much to add to that, since everything you said is correct. I took the edit to the Connecticut page to be uncontroversial simply because nobody had complained about similar edits to other pages (see here, here and here, among others), but in this case I probably ought to have looked harder for a reliable source (I suppose it's possible that I skipped over that part altogether). Anyway, I certainly have no complaints about restoring Ms. Wilson-Foley with an RS. Thanks again, – hysteria18 (talk) 13:29, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

District 10
Ohio District 10 will not be phased out it will be redrawn, and Kucinich has dismissed all claims that he will be running in Washington. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.13.66.210 (talk) 20:25, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Loose ends
As in Illinois, now the filing deadline's passed we have a few names who never filed to run but never publicly declined to either. (For the moment they're commented out in the article.) A reference for them having declined to run or explaining why they won't be on the ballot would be useful. – hysteria18 (talk) 23:36, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * OH-01: Mark Mallory, Steve Driehaus
 * OH-03: Kevin Boyce, Paula Brooks, Jennifer Brunner , John Patrick Carney, Nancy Garland, Andrew Ginther, Zach Klein , John O'Grady, Charleta Tavares
 * OH-06, OH-07, OH-16: Zack Space
 * OH-09: Rich Iott
 * OH-10: Robert Frost
 * OH-11: Linda Omobien, Marco Sommerville, Vernon Sykes, Mike Williams