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Happy editing! Marquardtika (talk) 19:38, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
"Fun facts" edit
According to Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, which is policy, Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. I do not think that all this county level election trivia improves these articles. I recommend that you refrain from adding this indiscriminate content. Many of your edits have been reverted by others. Cullen328 (talk) 19:07, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
- I am going to give a specific example of how silly this is. One of your recent edits says:
Lincoln was the first Republican presidential candidate ever to win the counties of Alameda, Constra Costa, Marin, Nevada, San Francisco and Santa Clara.
By coincidence, I happen to live in Nevada County. The 1860 presidential election was only the third in the State of California and only the second for the Republican Party. This is just a random set of factoids that provides no encyclopedic content for readers. Cullen328 (talk) 19:17, 9 December 2023 (UTC)- I've rolled back all of the fun facts, as along with being random factiods, the edits were also unsourced WP:OR. I'll also go a bit further than your recommendation that they stop. AlDefinitely, such edits are disruptive and continuing making such contributions can lead to your being blocked from editing, so please stop. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 19:51, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
- Strongly agree with ScottishFinnishRadish and Cullen328. Putting aside the issue of sourcing, it is extremely important that what is included actually matters, and does not simply waste space. As a hypothetical example, if a certain county broke a certain way for the first time in a long time, and that bears some connection to the dynamics of the election as a whole, maybe that's notable because it informs the reader about the broader topic. But so many of your contributions seemingly involved listing off technicalities, and that just no place on Wikipedia. Cpotisch (talk) 23:06, 9 December 2023 (UTC)