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California's 10th congressional district election, 2018

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It's not standard practice on Wikipedia to content-fork standalone articles about each individual congressional district's individual results in a national or statewide election. Special elections get their own standalone articles, because they're isolated topics that aren't part of any larger event in which they can be discussed, and thus can't be merged anywhere else — but regular elections on the standard national election day just get covered in one statewide results article per state, not spun off as standalone articles about each individual district. In both of these instances, the only special notability claim that really exists at all is that the results were close enough that the winner couldn't be declared on election night, because mail-in and provisional ballots were still in play — but that's not a strong reason why an individual district would need its own standalone election article when United States House of Representatives elections in California, 2018 already exists, with space for these to be discussed there.
Our role is to have articles about things that pass the ten-year test for enduring significance, not to necessarily start an article about every single thing that happens to be present in the current news cycle — but neither of these shows a credible 10YT pass. If one of these turned into such a pitched legal battle that the seat was still vacant when the new house convenes in January, then maybe there would be a credible case for creating a standalone article, but "the results haven't been finalized yet as of five days after election day" is not a strong reason in and of itself why a standalone article would be necessary yet. Bearcat (talk) 17:37, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - the United States House of Representatives elections in California, 2018 article was a pale substitute for this article. California has 53 elections like this one every year, and at least some of them will be notable in the long term. As we discovered with articles like the Audrey Denney article, we have an opportunity to attract new editors each time we have an election. Sending people to an omnibus article like United States House of Representatives elections in California, 2018 is a horrifying introduction to Wikipedia for newcomers, and I suspect we lose many because we are so eager to herd them to omnibus article. Sometimes, the election won't be notable, and that's ok...we can then blank and redirect to the appropriate section of the United States House of Representatives elections in California, 2018 article. This election will certainly remain notable though, due both to the close margins, and due to the drama that occurred during the primary. -- RobLa (talk) 18:16, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

it's worth noting that Bearcat accidentally linked the AfD nomination for California's 39th congressional district election, 2018 to this page rather than to the existing nomination the existing AfD nomination page, where there's an archive of the June AfD discussion. Many of the discussion points in that AfD discussion also apply to this discussion. -- RobLa (talk) 18:38, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

New renominations are not relinked back to the old closed discussions — they are linked to the currently open discussion, which is this one. So no, I didn't accidentally do anything incorrect — this page is the correct place for that article's AFD template to link to, because this page is where the currently active discussion about its includability or lack thereof is taking place. Bearcat (talk) 18:56, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - California's 10th congressional district election was an important 2018 midterm race for the U.S. House of Representatives and deserves special coverage, for a couple reasons: 1) this race was identified as a key battleground that might have affected partisan control of the U.S. House in the 116th Congress (Source: Ballotpedia); 2) California 10 is the swing district closest to San Francisco, leading to an unprecedented level of civic engagement, with tens of thousands of Bay Area volunteers phone banking or canvassing for Josh Harder (Sources: New York Times, SwingLeft); 3) Josh Harder represents a new model for candidates from the business world -- smart, early-in-their-career moderates who are willing to give up making big money to run for office (Source: Recode). These are important distinctions, which are likely to impact American politics in the future. There is not enough space for those distinctions to be made in the broad, but shallow United States House of Representatives elections in California, 2018 article. For those reasons, I believe it is appropriate for this CA-10 election to be covered in its own article on Wikipedia. Thank you for your consideration. Fabrice Florin (talk) 19:58, 12 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]