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221: 306: 197: 231: 166: 135: 641:! I literally just cited them as one of the great accomplishments of Knowledge to a friend at lunch several days ago. I often use them as a source in teaching and them going away would damage the quality of Knowledge. Deleting them would be the equivalent of like deleting population or something. If you don't find it useful, just keep scrolling! 671:
Agree 100% that presidential election results should stay. They're a good data point about the political leanings of a county's population and an important piece of a county's political history. I don't understand why anyone would say that they're unencyclopedic... Could you point to where editors
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I get that a line should be drawn somewhere, and I wouldn't support (for example) a breakdown of every single statewide race's result by county (Senate, Governor, Secretary of State, Agriculture Commissioner, Mine Inspector, etc.) but presidential results absolutely should be included. They are as
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A few editors have gotten it into their head that (despite having been there for years), these are now "not encyclopedic." It would be helpful to get consensus here that they are (or perhaps, if it goes that way, that they aren't) to resolve this.
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and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.
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i am but a humble casual editor, but i agree with that the presidential election results for counties should remain, i think they are informative and useful, simple as
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I firmly believe they are encyclopedic, they give massive information about a county and its people that is simply not captured by anything else on the pages.
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much a baseline read on a county's partisanship as a trend in listed census demographic data is on a county's racial breakdown. Removing them feels bonkers.
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It is as useful as racial and socioeconomic demographic data or media in the city. It provides a wide angle lens view of the jurisdiction.
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I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to
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Can we Get Consensus That Presidential Election Results Are a Should Include for Counties
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I have started a discussion about possibly merging WikiProject U.S. counties with
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The U.S. Census Bureau has officially released the 2022 census estimates.
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