User talk:SanDiegoEdits

Nathan Fletcher
Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. I have a question for you: what is your interest in Nathan Fletcher? Are you associated with his campaign, or with the campaign of his current opponent?

I ask because that is the only article you have edited here. You have been adding material which is pretty trivial and very much cherry-picked, as you choose one contribution or endorsement to report, out of hundreds. When I deleted the most trivial (about him accepting contributions from one particular corporation, out of hundreds of donors listed at the source), you added it again. The NRA endorsement, likewise, is just one out of many endorsements he received; there is no reason to single it out for mention. In both cases the information is cited to WP:primary sources - general lists of such things - rather than reported on by newspapers or other WP:secondary sources. The item about not releasing his transcripts was also pretty trivial, but I left it in for now because it was taken note of by an actual newspaper article. But I'd like to understand why you are focusing on adding this kind of stuff to his article. --MelanieN (talk) 05:17, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Hi Melanie. Thanks for your interest in the information I've added. I live in the district this candidate is running to represent. I've also taught at various colleges and universities, and the idea that someone is offered a teaching position without providing a CV or transcript strikes me as strange.

As for CoreCivic & his NRA endorsement: I care about campaign finance reform and gun safety. It's important information for others to see.

I'm just getting started with my account- I'm still learning how to edit and add information.

What is your interest in this page?
 * Thanks for replying; nice to "meet" you. I've been here for more than 10 years so I'll be glad to help you learn your way around. To answer your question, the Nathan Fletcher page is on my watchlist - as are several hundred other articles. The watchlist is a way of keeping an eye on an article; it notifies me when someone makes an edit or change. The first thing you will discover here is that other people may change or remove your edits. Don't let that discourage you, it's part of the learning process. In the case of the three things you added to the article: I am going to remove the CoreCivic and the NRA information again. I said they are "trivia" in my edit summary (you can see the edit summary in the article history), but what I really meant is that they are a kind of "cherry picking" - naming one corporation when the reference source lists hundreds of donors, or singling out one endorsement when he had dozens. What goes in the article has to be kind of in proportion to what is reported in newspapers and other reliable sources. We can't just go to a primary source like a list of donors, and pick out one to emphasize. That would be original research. We can only emphasize the things that have been emphasized by secondary sources.


 * I'm going to leave in the information about his transcript, because it was reported in a newspaper. But it wasn't really strange from the college's point of view. They were naming him a "professor of practice", not a regular academic appointment. A professor of practice is someone, usually a prominent person, who lectures based on his or her experience rather than academics. They may teach one class a term; they are just a kind of enrichment. I did fix the reference citation. Next time you want to add something let me know, and I'll teach you how to do references properly.


 * Any time you want to talk to me or ask me something, you can add this to your note: That will send me a "ping" to let me know you have mentioned me. But you do have to sign your note for it to work. To sign your note, just add four tildes ~ at the end of your note; that will automatically generate a signature and date/time stamp. Here's what happens when I do that: --MelanieN (talk) 17:06, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Not sure if I'm understanding how this "user talk" works- I will try posting this question here for In addition to teaching, I volunteer with organizations providing services to people who are homeless and/or struggling to pay high rents. This includes many of my students. Recent news reports estimate San Diego has lost 10,000 units of affordable housing over the last several years, and they have not been replaced- in part due to changes to redevelopment law.

I would like to cite two news articles re:redevelopment legislation championed by then-Assemblyman Fletcher & former Mayor Jerry Sanders that diverted funding for schools and resulted in less money for affordable housing.

Would you consider this information worth including and allow it to be added to the "legislation" section? The legislation and the way it was introduced was considered news worthy & notable for several reasons as these articles describe.

One article is here: https://www.kpbs.org/news/2010/oct/18/officals-apologize-redevleopment-deal-county-may-s/ The other is here: https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/news/redevelopment-deal-third-world-dictatorship/

thank you SanDiegoEdits (talk) 21:47, 21 August 2018 (UTC)