Talk:Politics of Rhode Island

Requested move 21 May 2015

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The result of the move request was: not moved. Number   5  7  11:19, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Politics of Rhode Island → Elections in Rhode Island – This will follow current structure of most state articles which have "Elections/Campaigning, etc." under "Elections in..." A "Politics in Rhode Island" article is desirable when such material is assembled. But "politics," contained in this article is merely elections, campaigning, results of campaigning, history of voting, voting, composition of the legislature, etc. None of this is actually "politics," per se. Student7 (talk) 19:45, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The article is just as much about what these politicians have done in office after winning election as it is about elections themselves. And I don't see the precedent you're referring to, although WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS is always a dicey argument at best, and typically considered illegitimate. RedSoxFan2434 (talk) 20:29, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose. If you want to "follow current structure of most state articles", then it should stay. See the articles in Template:Politics in the United States. These all use politics. kennethaw88 • talk 04:23, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment. There are three general articles for all states. One is "Government of..", the next is "Elections in..." the third is "Politics in..." The reason that there is no "Election in Rhode Island" is because this article contains that material. The reason there is no actual "Politics" (Statutes of the government unique to Rhode Island), is because this article on elections is there in its place. Student7 (talk) 20:05, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
 * This article is not about elections only. Politics is defined (by the first dictionary definition you get via Google) as "the activities associated with the governance of a country or other area, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or parties having or hoping to achieve power" which describes this article's scope (and most of the "Politics of X" articles' scopes) quite well. The "Elections in X" articles for states are typically about the general procedure of elections in those states: how and when politicians are elected, the role of parties, how ballot measures come about, etc with little to no coverage of the political history of the state, since that is left to the corresponding "Politics of X" article. Feel free to create an "Elections in Rhode Island" article in line with the "Elections in X" articles of other states (for example: Elections in California, Elections in Vermont, etc) The name should be kept to maintain consistency with other "Politics of X" and "Elections in X" articles around the encyclopedia. RedSoxFan2434 (talk) 02:05, 26 May 2015 (UTC)


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Orphaned references in Politics of Rhode Island
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Politics of Rhode Island's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Leip, David": From Elections in Maryland:  From Politics of Delaware:  From Elections in Virginia:  From Elections in Vermont:  From Elections in Pennsylvania:  From Elections in New Hampshire:  From Elections in Florida:  <li>From Elections in Georgia (U.S. state): </li> <li>From Rhode Island: </li> <li>From Elections in Alaska: </li> <li>From Politics of Massachusetts: </li> <li>From Politics of New Jersey: </li> </ul>

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 02:01, 4 March 2021 (UTC)