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Non-Partisan Election

The Nashville mayoral election is a non-partisan election. While you can be registered to a party everyone running is listed as non-partisan. I think the page needs to be altered/reflect to show party registration and not that they're running as a Democrat/Republican.

It's confusing with their party affiliation listed while it's a non-partisan election. (Though showing their registration does show their political leanings.) Benjamin.P.L (talk) 16:48, 29 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Separating major and non-major candidates

With 14 (previously 15) candidates now in the race, it might be helpful to have separate subsections on the major candidates and the other candidates. Of the candidates, only 7 of them have been present at/invited to five or more forums or received substantial media attention: Campbell, Gingrich, Hurt, O'Connell, Rolli, Wiltshire, and Yarbro. TrentBenge (talk) 01:48, 3 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's typically Wikipedia policy to never separate candidates into major and non-major candidates outside of presidential election articles. It's not really our job to determine who is and isn't a noteworthy candidate, and frankly it's really not necessary the vast majority of the time. There really aren't *that* many candidates in this race. BottleOfChocolateMilk (talk) 00:08, 4 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The 2021 New York City Democratic Mayoral primary page had it with less candidates, and the guidelines were the same ones set out in every other page with a separation of major and non-major candidates: "The following candidates have held office, have been included in polls, or have been the subject of significant media coverage." Comparatively, for the number of candidates this race has, the candidates should be separated, especially given the fact that the barrier to entry for the mayoral race is low. TrentBenge (talk) 06:49, 4 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

TrentBenge Big-city mayoral elections are a special case and are often lumped in with presidential election pages. The candidates on that page weren't separated because there were too many, they were separated to make sure the photo table didn't end up being too long. This page doesn't have a photo table, nor does it need one. We really try to avoid separating the candidates at all if we don't have to; Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and we shouldn't be judging who is and isn't a noteworthy candidate. Honestly I fail to see how pulling 4 candidates out of the list is at all helpful. The list of "major" candidates is still long, and removing 4 doesn't seem to make it any easier to navigate. BottleOfChocolateMilk (talk) 18:43, 4 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]