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Random page grade - June 15, 2006[edit]

Alaska's At-large congressional district
- Well written? - FAILED - not enough to judge (only two paragraphs)
- Factually accurate? - PASSED
- Broad in its coverage? - FAILED - stub
- NPOV - PASSED
- Is it stable? - YES
- Images - PASSED - although the caption could be approved

- Davodd 05:54, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move[edit]

Alaska's At-large congressional district → Alaska's at-large congressional district (move) – the "a" in "at-large" should be lowercase; see WP:NCCAPS and WT:MOS#Capitalisation_of_.22AT-LARGE.22_when_not_the_first_word_of_an_article_title -sche (talk) 23:39, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

PS be sure to combine the duplicate talk pages. -sche (talk) 23:39, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Election results[edit]

Pollock, Rivers, and Nick Begich cannot be incumbent as they are all dead. 216.137.192.89 (talk) 20:02, 2 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

They were incumbents when they were alive, running for re-election.—GoldRingChip 00:22, 3 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Two things[edit]

In the voter registration table, "minor parties" is a clear-cut NPOV violation. In Alaska, the AIP and LP have both had ballot access for the vast majority of the past three decades, which continues to the present day. In local parlance, they are "recognized political parties"; in other words, they're viewed as having equal footing with the Democrats and Republicans. Other parties have enjoyed ballot access at various points. Additionally, for many, many years, the majority of voters in Alaska have been registered outside of a political party. "Other parties" would be a far more neutral term than "minor parties", but that should only be applied to parties lacking ballot access (e.g. Green, Constitution, etc.) rather than continuing to give undue weight to the two-party system "just because".

The links in the election return table are a mess and of dubious value. There's a whole bunch of redlinks to non-notables, plus redlinks to names with articles. The latter is due to name variations inherit with accepting one particular source as gospel because that source is PD and therefore it's an easy way to fill up an article with content without necessarily working very hard at it. For instance, William L. Hensley is the same person as Willie Hensley, Kevin Parnell is commonly known as Pat Parnell, not Kevin Parnell, and on and on it goes. If you're content to respond to this point with WP:SOFIXIT, I believe I already did fix it. I don't believe it's my responsibility to keep fixing it over and over because someone else is content to keep lazily repeating their favored cherry-picked source across the encyclopedia. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 05:59, 20 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

WP:SOFIXIT: Instead of writing this, you could have gone and made the change yourself. And no, it's not the case that you "already did fix it". You've made one edit to this page, 5 years before you posted this. You didn't change anything to do with minor parties or correcting redlinks, you just added a couple of brackets. That hardly qualifies as "fixing it over and over". Tiller54 (talk) 21:08, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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