Talk:Linda McMahon 2010 United States Senate campaign/GA1

GA Review

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I am failing this GA right off the bat, for two reasons.

First, it is inappropriate to put an article about an ongoing, closed-ended subject like this up for GA before the events described have concluded. When her campaign is over in November, then the article can be finished, and a GA nomination would become appropriate. Putting it up now would be like putting 2010 FIFA World Cup up now ... it makes no sense, since the competition there hasn't ended either.

This was much discussed by various editors during the 2008 presidential election. A number of campaign articles from then have become GA, but all were nominated after the those campaigns had ended. By comparison, however, biographical articles can be nominated for GA at any time, even if the person is involved in an ongoing campaign. That's because biographies are essentially open-ended, with no fixed time frame, just like Association football is, and because campaign sections typically represent a small portion of an overall biography. So, for example, Hillary Rodham Clinton was GA, and John McCain was GA and then FA, and Barack Obama was FA, all during the time of the 2008 election season. So in this case, there would be no objection to putting Linda McMahon up for GA right now.

The second reason is that I'm not convinced this even should be an article of its own. It's the only separate senatorial campaign biographical subarticle; in every other case, the general senatorial election article covers the material, which for this case would be United States Senate election in Connecticut, 2010. I don't see why this can't be combined into that, especially since that article was kind of threadbare of narrative the last time I looked at it. Generally, only presidential campaigns merit separate biographical subarticles, because they are more major, significant efforts. (I did find one gubernatorial election with separate articles, Creigh Deeds gubernatorial campaign, 2009 and Bob McDonnell gubernatorial campaign, 2009, but I don't see why those can't be folded into Virginia gubernatorial election, 2009 either.) On the other hand, Wikipedia has a zillion articles that drill down in depth into all sorts of subject, so maybe this is the trend of the future. Again, when the campaign's over, we can get a better perspective on how to handle this.

As for the article itself, I didn't really examine it closely, but I do notice that there are many bare-url references and title-only references, which would not meet GA standards.

Reviewer: Wasted Time R (talk) 14:08, 19 June 2010 (UTC)