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Utterly confusing table

The table at the end of the article, mentioning several politicians including Kamala Harris and Kristi Noem, and mentioning some things about precedence, is utterly confusing.

I stared at it for five minutes and have no idea what it is there for, or what information is actually contained in it.

I am sure that it is possible to design a table that is even more worthless than this one.

(I just can't think of how at the moment.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:200:c082:2ea0:4c85:97e8:e26a:8609 (talk)

I agree that the "order of precedence" table is unnecessary, and have removed it. Walt Yoder (talk) 23:34, 18 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Reuters, May 28th, says he is running for President

His hat is in the ring Sudzydoogiedawg (talk) 11:17, 28 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

my error! It says he is set to run, on May 27th@ Sudzydoogiedawg (talk) 11:22, 28 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Several news stories say he will announce on June 7. Anon a mouse Lee (talk) 23:51, 28 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Just updated it to say that, not sure why it wasn't lol Los Pobre (talk) 01:38, 5 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"large" software company

In the introduction the adjective "large" is used to describe Great Plains Software, a company that only employed 2,200 and was sold for just over $1 billion. By tech industry standards this is hardly "large". The word comes off as self-serving and is unnecessary. Watari19 (talk) 16:28, 7 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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I don't know the governor from Adam so I really have no opinion of him. Even so, this small article clearly demonstrates the political biases of WP and its editors. Using semi-subliminal phrases like passed a series of anti-trans laws, then linking it (anti-trans) to "transphobia" shows that it was written by one person, from one person's point-of-view. That is not encyclopedia-like. Knowledgebases are discussed and edited before publishing, not after. That is what makes them useful. Could it have been "laws considered trans-phobic by some" - or something to that effect? No. Are we so afraid that someone might actually soften a stance or make a truly neutral statement? Is that a reason to prohibit editing? We don't know that the governor himself is actually anti-trans. Anti-trans, as used in this article is political speech and should be - re-phrased. 71.215.98.163 (talk) 17:13, 7 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. --Pinchme123 (talk) 17:24, 7 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal

I propose merging Doug Burgum 2024 presidential campaign into Doug Burgum and leaving behind a redirect. I think that the content in the campaign can easily be explained within the biographical article for the foreseeable future, and a merger would not cause any article-size or weighting problems in the candidate’s main article. It is not clear whether the campaign will obtain enough note down the road to warrant its own article, but it is not useful to have a stub article at this moment. I am not opposed to a future spinning-off/re-creation of the campaign article if there later becomes sufficiently more to write about the campaign, but for now I believe the stub-article on the campaign serves no use and there is not enough to expand the article beyond what is now contained in it. I am in the process of making similar requests for some other 2024 campaign articles.SecretName101 (talk) 15:43, 8 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support per rationale of SecretName101, with no prejudice against restoring the article should significant coverage of Burgum's campaign increase enough to warrant it. A. Randomdude0000 (talk) 17:08, 8 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support, this would follow similar precedents set by Michael Bennet 2020 presidential campaign, John Hickenlooper 2020 presidential campaign, and Tim Ryan 2020 presidential campaign with the option of de-merging the article should it become necessary later down the road. --Woko Sapien (talk) 20:11, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]