Talk:2020 Oregon Secretary of State election

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@Yompi20: can you not recklessly go around nominating articles for speedy deletion? This is a notable race, there’s precedent (see 2018 Florida Attorney General election for example), and the duplicate info can be easily removed from the 2020 Oregon state elections page. Kingofthedead (talk) 03:27, 21 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Kingofthedead: My nomination of this page for speedy deletion was not reckless. I have never nominated a page for deletion before, but I nominated this page (as well as 2020 Oregon State Treasurer election and 2020 Oregon Attorney General election) only after careful and thoughtful consideration. Please remember to assume that fellow Wikipedia editors are acting in good faith.
Thank you for recognizing that this page consists of duplicate information presented in the main article 2020 Oregon state elections. The vote totals are a bit of a moving target as the official results have not yet been released, and an infobox was added, but otherwise this article is largely the exact same as the "Secretary of State" section of the main article. The candidate list, the endorsements, the italicized font used in showing the effective dates for withdrawn candidates, the references cited, the accessdate of the references (which predate the creation of this article), even the "Oregon elections" and "United States elections, 2020" footers (which don't link to this article) -- all of these are the exact same. This page is literally nothing more than a copy/paste of a section of an existing Wikipedia article without any real expansion. I don't agree that the duplicate information should be removed from the main article -- at currently around 35K bytes, the main article does not appear to merit being split into separate articles. As to precedent, please note that Oregon statewide elections have been shown in one article for each election year dating back to the article 2006 Oregon state elections, and I don't believe the author of the three articles I nominated for deletion has demonstrated why we should deviate from that precedent and establish separate articles in addition to the main one.
The reason for nominating an article for speedy deletion under criteria A10 is "This applies to any recently created article with no relevant page history that duplicates an existing English Wikipedia topic, and that does not expand upon, detail or improve information within any existing article(s) on the subject, and where the title is not a plausible redirect." I believe the nomination, based on what I have outlined above and my understanding of criteria A10, is warranted. Yompi20 (talk) 14:54, 21 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect request

@GB fan: You recently changed the article 2020 Oregon State Treasurer election to a redirect following my request for an A10 speedy deletion. I also nominated this article for the same reasons, though my speedy deletion template here was later removed by another user. For more context, please see the further discussion that occurred above on this page. However, as with the State Treasurer election article, this article is largely just a copy/paste of a section of the article 2020 Oregon state elections without any significant expansion or improvement. Would you mind setting this page as a redirect as well? Or would it make more sense for me to submit an RfD? Thank you! Yompi20 (talk) 19:57, 22 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]