Talk:Graphical representations of two-way-contest opinion polling data from the 2008 United States presidential election

Graphical representations of two-way-contest opinion polling data from the United States presidential election, 2008

Guys,

Here is the proposed page for your review.

Hkball (talk) 14:15, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

Reasons for Restoring this page

(1) Line graphs are useful for visualizing the current situation especially in the last 4 weeks before the election

(2) All graph data is taken from Nationwide opinion polling for the United States presidential election, 2008.

(3) Until September 8, 2008 there were a number of charts done by another party on this page, but they had not been modified since late 2007. I therefore had been using links to reference all my charts so as to not clutter and confuse the page. I had been hesitant to delete someone else's work, being new to Wikipedia, but finally did so, clearing the accuracy warnings at the top of the page. Here are volumes since then:

Page Views and Visitors, Sep 6 - Oct 5, 2008

(4) Since the viewers were finding the pages alright, I left my work all as links as it seemed clean and workable. I was unaware of the Wikipedia policy on the use of links.

(5) I have now loaded a few of the charts (there are 50+ total) on to the page, the others still as links as they would tend to increase clutter on the page.

(6) I have expended hundreds of hours on this project since October 2007. I may be biased being an American, but I think this election is the most important of my lifetime.

(7) My plea, I guess, is that you allow the page to exist for the next 4 weeks, then perhaps shut it down, as my job will be done.

... Hkball (talk) 01:41, 27 December 2007 (UTC)