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Article Updates

Hello: I am on the campaign staff for James Talarico, and am therefore in a conflict of interest relationship according to Wikipedia criteria. There is some information that is old, some incorrect, and a few updates (with formatted sources) that I’d like to propose here on the talk page. I would like to propose these improvements in conformity with Wikipedia’s content policies and etiquette. I welcome any feedback. The three requests are: Updating the lede to reflect the change in the district redrawing. Can we move the text in red to his campaign section and add the updated district? Addition to his career section re: being called out as a rising star Adding 2022 campaign information

Best Masonthedem (talk) 17:38, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

1 Improvements for the lede:

James Dell Talarico (born May 17, 1989) is an American politician and former teacher. He was elected to the Texas State House of Representatives in 2018 to represent District 52. which includes the cities of Round Rock, Taylor, Hutto, and Georgetown in Williamson County. Following the state of Texas redistricting in 2021, Talarico announced his run for a seat in District 50 in 2022. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

2 Update/addition for career section, or where best appropriate.

In his second term, he was named one of Top 10 Best Legislators by Texas Monthly magazine, and has been repeatedly called a “rising star” in Texas politics.^[1]

3 New Section

2022 Campaign

After being drawn into a Republican district, Talarico announced that he would be running in the neighboring House District 50, a Democratic seat being vacated by Rep. Celia Israel.^[2] Talarico announced his campaign with major endorsements from Beto O’Rourke, Wendy Davis, and Joaquin Castro, among others.^[1] Talarico grew up in House District 50.^[3]

Thank you for disclosing your conflict of interest, and for following our process by proposing edits on the talk page rather than implementing them yourself. Much appreciated. Your first suggested change re. the district boundaries changing looks fine and I'll go ahead and implement that. I have concerns about your other proposals because they seem promotional to me. Wording like "repeatedly called" and "major" is WP:PEACOCK and is better suited to a campaign website than to an encyclopedia article. Can you rephrase your content requests in less promotional terms/flowery language? Marquardtika (talk) 19:51, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hi C Thank you very much for your response, for implementing the edits you did, and for your feedback about other content. I see I neglected to include the Texas Monthly source for the ‘Top 10’ sentence. I’ll include it here and you can let me know if it is an allowable edit.^[4]

In response to your other comments:

Instead of saying ‘...repeatedly called’, is this an acceptable change? ‘...and called a “rising star” in Texas politics by The Texas Tribune, and The Nation.^[2]^[5]

Is it acceptable to change the endorsement statement to read - He received endorsements from Beto O’Rourke, Wendy Davis (politician), and Joaquin Castro.

Lastly, can we add that Talarico grew up in House District 50? Again, I appreciate your time and feedback. I’m happy to respond to any other comments you may have. Best Masonthedem (talk) 16:39, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I have a few updates (with formatted sources) that I’d like to propose here on the talk page. I would like to propose these improvements in conformity with Wikipedia’s content policies and etiquette. I welcome any feedback.

1 Update/addition for career section, or where best appropriate.

Talarico is one of the youngest members of the Texas Legislature.[10] In his second term, he was named one of Top 10 Best Legislators by Texas Monthly magazine. He has been called a “rising star” in Texas politics by The Texas Tribune and The Nation.^[4]^[1]^[6]

2 Update/addition of c2022 campaign information.

After being drawn into a Republican district, Talarico announced that he would be running in the neighboring House District 50, a Democratic seat being vacated by Rep. Celia Following the Texas Democratic Primary in March of 2022, Talarico was declared the Democratic Nominee for House District 50—winning 78.42% of the vote. Talarico won all 41 precincts in which at least one vote was cast.^[7]

2022


Texas Democratic Primary Election, 2022: House District 50^[8]
Party	Candidate	Votes	%
Democratic	James Talarico	9,128	78.42%
Republican	David Alcorta	2,503	21.58%
Margin		6,625	56.96%

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Johnson, Brad (15 October 2021). "The Back Mic: Democrat Moves After Redistricting, New Legislator Off to Fast Start, Approval of University Spending Requested". The Texan. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
^ ^a ^b Svitek, Patrick (13 October 2021). "After his Round Rock district was redrawn to help Republicans, state Rep. James Talarico says he'll move to Austin to run in 2022". kxan. Retrieved 4 February 2022. Cite error: The named reference "texastribune.org" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
^ Isgur, Dorothy (15 October 2021). "Rep. Talarico blames 'racist gerrymandering' for causing move to new House district". kxan. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
^ ^a ^b Hooksfirst1=Christopher; Ratcliffe, R.G.; Zelinski, Andrea (July 2021). "2021: The Best and Worst Legislators". Texas Monthly. Retrieved 4 February 2022.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ Walsh, Joan (July 2021). "This Texas Democrat Doesn't Want Proud Boys Standing Over His Grandmother as She Votes". The Nation. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
^ Walsh, Joan (19 July 2021). "This Texas Democrat Doesn't Want Proud Boys Standing Over His Grandmother as She Votes". The Nation. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
^ Cite error: The named reference kxan was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ IAdams, Christopher (4 March 2022). "MAP: Talarico wins every precinct in the HD 50 primary". kxan. Retrieved 7 April 2022.

Masonthedem (talk) 16:14, 20 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[thetexan.news-1] Johnson, Brad (15 October 2021). "The Back Mic: Democrat Moves After Redistricting, New Legislator Off to Fast Start, Approval of University Spending Requested". The Texan. Retrieved 4 February 2022.

[texastribune.org-2] Svitek, Patrick (13 October 2021). "After his Round Rock district was redrawn to help Republicans, state Rep. James Talarico says he'll move to Austin to run in 2022". kxan. Retrieved 4 February 2022. Cite error: The named reference "texastribune.org" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).

[kxan.com-3] Isgur, Dorothy (15 October 2021). "Rep. Talarico blames 'racist gerrymandering' for causing move to new House district". kxan. Retrieved 7 February 2022.

[texasmonthly72021-4] Hooksfirst1=Christopher; Ratcliffe, R.G.; Zelinski, Andrea (July 2021). "2021: The Best and Worst Legislators". Texas Monthly. Retrieved 4 February 2022.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[thenation.com-5] Walsh, Joan (July 2021). "This Texas Democrat Doesn't Want Proud Boys Standing Over His Grandmother as She Votes". The Nation. Retrieved 4 February 2022.

[thenation.news-6] Walsh, Joan (19 July 2021). "This Texas Democrat Doesn't Want Proud Boys Standing Over His Grandmother as She Votes". The Nation. Retrieved 4 July 2022.

[kxan-7] Cite error: The named reference kxan was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[kxan.com342022-8] IAdams, Christopher (4 March 2022). "MAP: Talarico wins every precinct in the HD 50 primary". kxan. Retrieved 7 April 2022.

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