Talk:2025 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election

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Rampant vandalism

There is currently a rampant and sustained vandalism effort underway by the IP address undoing my revisions. They are adding silly, unsourced candidates like Daniel Craig or Olaf Scholz. I do not have the experience with Wikipedia editing to combat this moron who seems to be constantly refreshing to put his nonsense back up, "47.55.189.123" is the primary source of it but I suspect it is multiple accounts. Go troll on Twitter/X, this should be a source of informative facts not you goofing around. TrentBrownlee (talk) 20:16, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Toronto Star "wild cards"?

Should all the candidates that the Toronto Star lists as "wild cards" be included? Aside from Frank Baylis and Jonathan Wilkinson, who are listed by other sources, the article lists Andrew Furey, Ahmed Hussen, Jane Philpott, and Jody Wilson-Raybould, who I haven't seen mentioned by any other sources, current or otherwise. The link to the article is here: https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/who-will-replace-justin-trudeau-as-liberal-party-leader-here-are-some-likely-contenders/article_cca1d2fc-34bf-11ef-9a05-ffe7edd4b11b.html (or here, for those without a Star subscription: https://archive.is/dFiEa) LoganP25 (talk) 23:31, 6 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I would say no, and that the standard should be improved to have a minimum threshold of two independent **and reliable** sources to be included on the list. - Epluribusunumyall (talk) 23:40, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It's so early on I'd say it's best to have as many potential options listed. This news agency is a pretty reliable source generally, so until we start having a proper list we should only require 1 source. They also have different contact sources so they might know more about who's considering compared to other Newspapers. Politicsenthusiast06 (talk) 00:30, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Has Frank Baylis actually declared?

My reading of both the CBC and Hill Times (not super reliable) references is that he wants to run, but is going to wait and see once the rules of the election get released. Thoughts on moving his name to a Decision pending or Announcement pending subheading? - Epluribusunumyall (talk) 23:38, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]