User:Rockmhoward

I signed up to start editing Wikipedia to address a specific concern I have with US election coverage. It seems that Wikipedia editors have come to a consensus to treat different candidates differently and depend on polls (which are themselves generally administered in an unequal fashion) as a means for deciding who gets full coverage (i.e., a posted picture) on a Wikipedia page concerning a given US election. Now it turns out that the IRS has published guidelines for non-profit organizations that make it clear that treating candidates unequally on web pages controlled by the non-profit constitutes "intervening in an election", to use the IRS terminology, and non-profit organizations are not allowed to do that. So my mission is to fix this by working to put together new election page guidelines for Wikipedia and to help apply these new guidelines in an expeditious manner.

Here is the IRS publication that presents the guidelines for election activities for non-profit organizations.