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Deletion of election narrative

Muboshgu - I largely agree that this edit trimming back the election detail was probably the correct thing to do. However, I upmerged my work on California's 10th congressional district election, 2018 into this article out of fear that the AfD for that article would result in the election article being deleted in a few days, and I figured that readers interested in that information wouldn't be too surprised to find it here (and editors qualified to improve it are most likely monitoring this article). Do you believe that the prose you trimmed belongs at a) California's 10th congressional district election, 2018 (assuming consensus emerges around "Keep") b) inside United States House of Representatives elections in California, 2018 c) someplace else d) deleted, since it's not useful to our readers? I agree with using WP:summary style on that section if California's 10th congressional district election, 2018 sticks around, but I'm not sure it should be deleted if California's 10th congressional district election, 2018 is deleted, too. -- RobLa (talk) 06:10, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

@RobLa: It can stay at (a) if that article is kept, or at (b) if it isn't. If (a) is kept, (b) can have a slimmed down version of it as well. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:22, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

Born in Turlock or Woodland?

My understanding is that Josh Harder was born in Turlock, California, and that seems to be consistent with the citations that I've found:

  • Stapley, Garth (August 1, 2018). "Support from two U.S. presidents figures in Denham, Harder race". The Modesto Bee. Retrieved November 15, 2018. Harder, who turned 32 Wednesday...
  • "Central Valley Democrats fighting to unseat Republican Jeff Denham spar over local ties". The Mercury News. May 31, 2018. Retrieved November 12, 2018. Despite the fact that he was born in and grew up in Turlock, Harder's rivals are attacking him as a carpetbagger and Bay Area outsider.

However, the original draft of this article said he was born in Woodland, California. I changed his birthplace to "Turlock". A different editor changed his birthplace back to Woodland. I looked up my best information on the web, and changed it back to Turlock (citing the sources above). Another editor just changed it back to Woodland.

Well, it's not like I was there. It's entirely possible that his parents lived in Turlock when he was born, but for whatever reason, he was born in Woodland (hence, that's what his birth certificate would say). Moreover, there is one source that claims he was born in Woodland:

Is there an easily-found reliable source that I'm not aware of that other editors are? Are the anonymous editors actually people that know Harder really well (e.g. close family friends or family members or Harder himself)? Is this a weird attempt to start a mini-birther controversy? Does anyone have the energy to go look up the birth announcements from the Turlock or Woodland newspapers from August 1986, or have the curiosity to research this further? -- RobLa (talk) 19:13, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Josh Harder

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Josh Harder's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "General Election":

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 17:24, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

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