Wikipedia:Featured topic candidates/1946 California's 12th congressional district election/archive1
The 1946 election for California's 12th congressional district was an election to the U.S. House of Representatives held on November 5, 1946, in which the Republican candidate and future president Richard Nixon defeated the incumbent five-term U.S. Representative, Democratic nominee Jerry Voorhis. Nixon was elected with 56% of the vote, defeating Voorhis's 43%, as well as third-party Prohibition Party candidate and former Representative John H. Hoeppel, who received 1%. After failing to recruit former U.S. Army General George Patton to run for the seat, the Republicans decided on then-Lieutenant Commander Nixon as their candidate, who would go on to become a Senator, Vice President, and eventually President of the United States.
- Contributor(s): Politicsfan4
I believe that this topic fully meets the featured topic criteria: it is a set of 5 featured articles, that cover one related event. It would go well in the "Politics and government" content tab in the featured topics page. --Politicsfan4 (talk) 01:10, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose This is very strangely constructed. Patton is only mentioned twice in passing in that he didn't run in the election, and Pat Nixon is mentioned once in passing as one of the candidates' wives. Under this level of inclusion you conveniently left out Stanley Barnes who was also asked about running and additional candidate John H. Hoeppel. Maybe this could be a topic with just the two people actually nominated in the election. You did not consult with the primary author of the three main articles here, Wehwalt, as recommended at Wikipedia:Featured and good topic criteria; you should not list yourself as the contributor. Reywas92Talk 02:03, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Reywas92: Apologies. Is there a way to rescind the nomination? -- Politicsfan4 (talk) 15:30, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
- Oppose: no criticism to any of these excellent articles, but the scope doesn't make sense. Patton's article doesn't once mention any attempt to involve him in this election, and Pat Nixon's name only appears once in the main article, as part of a compound noun ("he and his wife..."). Neither of those articles belongs in this proposal. If we pare it down to the remaining three, then it seems to me that the topic would also need the other candidate in the election, John H. Hoeppel. More fundamentally, this just doesn't strike me as a coherent topic; neither of these men is mainly notable for this event, and the proposal would have to really strain to satisfy FTC 1(c): "All articles or lists in the topic are linked together, preferably using a template, and share a common category or super-category." To be clear, it's not that someone needs to *make* a category or a navbox for this event, and then the proposal would be all good; rather, the fact that it never previously occurred to anyone to make such a category or navbox is a clue that the articles don't really form a well-defined topic together. I could probably be talked into it if the third candidate were included, but for now I have to oppose. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 01:59, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
- Closed with consensus not to promote - GamerPro64 04:03, 19 February 2021 (UTC)