Talk:Timeline of the 2012 United States presidential election

When will the official national conventions of the Green and Consitution Parties be?

We have the dates for the Democratic, Republican, and Libertarian conventions. J390 (talk) 18:39, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

The Constitution Party Convention is set for April 2012 in Nashville, but last I heard, the specific dates in April had not been set. The site and dates for the Green Party Convention have apparently not yet been determined.--JayJasper (talk) 18:55, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

Proposal for improving readableness

What do you think about highlighting important events such as debates, announcements, rejections, conventions, surveys etc. by using specific colors? That would help the readers find a golden thread through the whole schedule, which only consists of a succession of single items.

PS: I had already marked some events, however my work, which took me about an hour, has been destroyed - twice. Leucojum vernum (talk) 12:25, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

What if it was divided into relevant sections instead? Such as Election Dates, Candidate Actions, etc? It wouldn't all be chronological anymore, but it'd suffice for what you want to do. --→ talk page (JakeBathman) 15:30, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Terry and Karger

Should we really be including this guys on the timeline when they are never going to appear on any sort of primary ballot? Afterall, Wikipedia does have notability and relevancy requirements. Frank0051 (talk) 15:42, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

They are listed here in keeping with standard applied to other related election pages, which is that all candidates that meet the notability guideline for wikipedia are listed. Besides, it's too early right now to know for certain which candidates will and will not appear on any primary ballots.--NextUSprez (talk) 18:38, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

If you say so on the notability requirements then fine, lets leave them on. But, I think it is safe to say they won't appear on any primary ballot, haha. Frank0051 (talk) 19:12, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Both Karger and Terry are on the ballot for the New Hampshire primary.--JayJasper (talk) 20:47, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

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Where is Huntsman in your timeline? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.202.162.182 (talk) 19:33, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

See May & June. He's also mentioned several times as a debate participant.--JayJasper (talk) 20:40, 7 December 2011 (UTC)

Inauguration day

Are we sure that Inauguration day will be on Sunday 20 January 2013? On the last two occasions when 20 January has fallen on Sunday (1985, 1957) Inauguration day was moved to 21 January. Is there are reason to think that won't happen this time? --Philip Stevens (talk) 21:38, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

This, which appears to be official, states the federal observance of the inaugaration will be the following day, Jan. 21, but does not specifically say the the ceremony itself will be moved - it only says "Inauguration Day.....falls on a Sunday." I could not find reliable sources from a Google search that stated the ceremony will be held on the the 21st. Until such sources can be found to verify that the inauguration will be held on a different date than than Jan. 20, it is best to leave it as is.--JayJasper (talk) 20:11, 9 January 2012 (UTC)

In those years there were two inaugurations. One on the 20th and one on the 21st. The 1985 ceremonies were both covered on TV, and the "informal" photo of Ronald Reagan taking the oath of office on a Sunday was on the cover of both Time and Newsweek.Ericl (talk)

I don't recall this happening in 1985, got a reference link for it? -- Alyas Grey : talk 07:28, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Question re citations

Many cited sources are linked via Webcite, which doesn't always work, with the original URL given as a subsidiary. This makes little sense to me. Black Max (talk) 03:09, 9 January 2012 (UTC) Black Max

Looked at cleaning the page up some...

but it's a total trainwreck, and it seems like it would be impossible to keep up with folks just slapping up horrible formatting and unnecessary or incorrect information. I'd also like to point out that this is a TIMELINE, not a resutls page. Link to the results all you want, but it just clutters up a timeline.-- Alyas Grey : talk 06:38, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Heck, I went ahead and did it. Just keep in mind that it's a timeline and not a summary. -- Alyas Grey : talk 07:26, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

A timeline includes important events and how they turned out. A person who didn't know any better wouldn't known what the heck was going on. You may wish to just have the winners listed, but some results are extremely important to the legibility of the piece. To some extent it IS a summery. We need more stuff like Trump's endorsement of Romney and the like. It's important.Ericl (talk) 22:08, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Things like major endorsements are fine, but the primaries themselves already have dedicated pages. The information is redundant and makes the page look like crap. If you insist on putting results on the page, at least make them look good. --70.145.76.243 (talk) 21:17, 7 February 2012 (UTC)