Template:Did you know nominations/Cary Moon
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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 10:09, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
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Cary Moon[edit]
... that Seattle mayoral candidate Cary Moon qualified for the general election by a margin of 1,362 votes?Source: Seattle Met
- Reviewed: Slovenian railway referendum, 2017
Created by SounderBruce (talk). Self-nominated at 00:10, 1 October 2017 (UTC).
New, long enough, cited, and with QPQ. Only issue is that infobox image may not satisfy non-free use rationale requirements, and is currently nominated for deletion. I recognize that this image is not being submitted as part of the DYK nom, but if I understand correctly, this still constitutes a potential "copyright violation of images and/or text" for the article. --NoGhost (talk) 18:20, 1 October 2017 (UTC)
The non-free image has been replaced, and everything looks good to go now. --NoGhost (talk) 21:54, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
- Hi, I came by to promote this, but footnote 10, which includes the vote tally that you're quoting, says there were 1,200 uncounted ballots. Do you have a final vote count from which to extrapolate her winning margin? Yoninah (talk) 23:59, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
- @Yoninah: The official certified results indicate a 1,170 margin, which is cited by reference 9. The hook should be changed accordingly: ALT1: ... that Seattle mayoral candidate Cary Moon qualified for the general election by a margin of 1,170 votes? SounderBruce 00:04, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
WP:DYKHOOK says "Articles and hooks featuring election candidates up to 30 days before an election in which they are standing should be avoided, unless the hook is a "multi" that includes bolded links to new articles on all the main candidates." The Seattle mayoral election, 2017 runs from 18 October to 7 November, so we can't run this article in DYK. See Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#Prep_4_-_Cary_Moon BencherliteTalk 10:12, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
Thanks for the rule, Bencherlite. However, as suggested by The Rambling Man at WT:DYK, there could be a better hook for this article after the election: It's probably more interesting to note that she apparently spent nearly $100,000 of her own "wealth" during the campaign while simultaneously campaigning for "income equality". Putting this nomination on hold until after November 7. Yoninah (talk) 10:49, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
- That's not in the article, and I can't immediately locate it in the sources (but I'm sure TRM found it somewhere). I have no problem with it being on hold, but a hook that said words to the effect of "a rich person campaigns for income equality" would have to be very carefully worded to avoid sounding as though WP was saying that she was being hypocritical. BencherliteTalk 10:59, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
- Comment: we typically place approved election hooks in the Special Occasions section with an instruction to promote on the day after election day or later, though since Seattle is UTC-8, it would need to be in a "November 9 or later" section, since voting would still be open at midnight UTC on November 8. (Am I correct in remembering that elections in Washington State are run entirely by mail? In that case, the hook cannot hit the main page before the last time to mail anything with a November 7 pickup or postmark.) BlueMoonset (talk) 18:36, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
- I'm fine with holding until November 9 (or later). Washington uses a majority-mail system, but absentee and booth ballots can still take a while to process. The results should be be certified on November 28, upon which the newly elected mayor (Moon or Durkan) will take office effective immediately. SounderBruce 06:29, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
