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Infobox picture biased

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It looks like Nazi propaganda (even if unintentional) that one guy's picture is so big in the info box and the other guy looks like a midget.

Fix it! Eating Glass Is Bad (talk) 16:25, 8 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You are right about the photo images of Begich and Sullivan, however serious offense taken about "Nazi propaganda" comment. Please be more careful when throwing around analogies. Quis separabit? 17:07, 8 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
No, you're not right. Sullivan's placement in his photo is different to Begich's and to assume from that that the page is "biased" is absolute nonsense. Attempting to "fix" this would result in Sullivan's picture being significantly larger than Begich's, just to make the people in them look the same size. Tiller54 (talk) 18:49, 8 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I withdraw the word "Nazi". However, the size of the photos are so different and one guy is made to look like a midget. In the interest of fairness, both photos should be taken down until one where both heads are about the same size is found. If people want to know how the people look like, just click on their bios. Eating Glass Is Bad (talk) 19:07, 9 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

No, they shouldn't be taken down, nor will they be. Tiller54 (talk) 12:03, 10 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment and tagging

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Ever slowly catching up on a backlog of article assessments. I assessed this as C-Class and would have to consider it at the bottom end of that. It has potential for quickly rising to B, though. I also tagged it for undue weight for similar reasons. The problem should be obvious: the article has been aggressively maintained as a dumping ground for polling data. In comparison, it's pitifully short on details and information about campaign finance and the campaign trail. The amount of money spent on this race was a dominant theme of the coverage I was reading. Looks like that influence must have spilled over to here, too. Of course there was talk of how Daniel S. Sullivan suddenly started calling himself Dan Sullivan at a time when his star was rising and he could capitalize on the name due to the accomplishments of the other Dan Sullivan. When the so-called "only reliable sources in existence" (read: big corporate media) have a conflict of interest due to their profit from advertising revenue, I suppose it's easy to ignore that and go find a boogeyman in someone like Thom Walker who isn't actively campaigning (read: "Go make me money, honey!"). As to the campaign trail, other editors are adding sourced mentions of events related to this campaign into other articles, such as mentioning the Jerry Active case and its use as a campaign device. Readers may think it strange to see a random mention of that in a random article, then clicking on the link to this article and finding no mention of such. Based on numerous talk page discussions, I would suspect that there are hundreds more articles exactly like this, but I haven't the time to weed them out. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 09:50, 24 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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