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Requested move 18 January 2020

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved to the proposed title at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 16:52, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]


2020 Washington Democratic primary2020 Washington presidential primary – In this name change, I'm expressing two disagreements with the original name of the article. First, the March 10, 2020 presidential primary is for both major parties, although the Republicans have only one candidate running. Second, the article name needs to be specific that this is a presidential primary. There is another primary in Washington in August 2020 for down ballot races. Dash77 (talk) 04:27, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

To summarize how these presidential election articles are usually organized:
So for consistency with all these other articles, the articles title should still have "Democratic" in its name (like 2020 Minnesota Democratic presidential primary), and only have content about the Democratic party race. And any page titled "2020 Washington presidential primary" should redirect to an eventual 2020 United States presidential election in Washington (state)#Primary elections. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (talk) 06:00, 18 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose any move. The current title is consistent with all others in Category:2020 United States Democratic presidential primaries by state, and also equivalent pages going back through the years. We don't combine Republican and Democrat primaries on to one page. Also, I don't see a need to add "presidential" to the title. This is already WP:PRECISE enough and also more WP:CONCISE, because the "down ballot" primaries per state aren't don't have articles, and again, almost no other page in the extensive category tree has this qualifier. (Minnesota was boldly moved a couple of weeks ago without a discussion, so I've reverted that).  — Amakuru (talk) 12:25, 27 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Polling numbers

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There's been vandalism - look at Gabbard polling numbers on the page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Byelf2007 (talkcontribs) 21:51, March 6, 2020 (UTC)

It wasn't vandalism, but an error while removing a withdrawn candidate from the table. It has since been resolved. --Spiffy sperry (talk) 22:38, 6 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

win

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Much of the discussion seems to be on who wins the primary. But it isn't winner take all, so if it is close to a tie, then delegates will be assigned close to equally. Should the article mention this? Gah4 (talk) 19:13, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

vote by mail

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While Washington is a vote by mail state, at least in King county, maybe other counties, there are drop boxes. Also, for people who need it, there are in person voting sites, where I suspect that you fill out the same ballot, and drop it in a drop box. The drop boxes avoid postal delay, though they might not get counted until the next day. Gah4 (talk) 05:38, 13 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]


Delegate Count

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I saw 2 issues and only fixed one.

  • The latest delegate counts were from an unofficial website with a disclaimer stating the numbers were combination of actual and estimates. I reverted the numbers to the last known delegate count, which was the same accross numper of reputed sites (NPR, AP).
  • There are multiple references to pledged delegates being 107. That is not correct. The total number of delegates is 107, but the number of pledged delegates is 89.

-- Preceding unsigned comment added by Andy8Kahn (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:02, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

 Done I fixed the numbers and added a source to the lede. Michelangelo1992 (talk) 18:23, 15 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Washington called for Biden?

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The current text of the lede claims that a majority of news outlets have not yet called the Washington primary, but provides no reference to a reliable source claiming that, or indeed any outlets that haven't called it.

Meanwhile, the AP, which is generally fairly conservative about calling races, has now joined other outlets in calling Washington for Biden.

Does anyone have any sources at all that haven't called the race to substantiate the claim that a majority of outlets haven't called it?Gambling8nt (talk) 02:11, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

All the major outlets (most importantly, the Associated Press) have called it. Smith0124 (talk) 20:20, 18 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Map?

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Someone needs to add the result map to the infobox. I'm not experienced enough to do it. Smith0124 (talk) 20:15, 18 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Move discussion in progress

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There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:2020 Alabama Democratic primary which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 23:07, 3 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Rfc notice

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Editors of this page are encouraged to participate in an Rfc on Talk:2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries pertaining to the infobox of this page and all state by state primary pages. The Rfc is about candidates who have withdrawn. Smith0124 (talk) 00:51, 8 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]