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Are we not able to get his congressional photo for the infobox? Guyb123321 ( talk) 19:20, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
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I've reverted the addition of "the only incumbent House Democrat defeated by a Republican" to a sentence in the lead regarding Ashford's 2016 loss. The statement is supported by two sources: [1], which is only a list of members defeated in the general election, with their parties; and [2], which states "Just one Democratic incumbent had lost by Wednesday, Nebraska's Brad Ashford"; so was apparently written before it became known that Mike Honda had also lost his seat. This apparently prompted the editor who inserted the statement to add "defeated by a Republican", since Honda lost in the general election to another Democrat.
This, I think, is OR. To salvage it, we'd need a statement from a reliable source stating, in so many words, that Ashford was the only incumbent D who'd lost to an R. Otherwise, we could come up with all kinds of demonstrably true but not especially relevant facts: the only candidate whose name began with "A" defeated by someone whose name began with "B", and so forth.
Moreover, even if the statement can be properly sourced, it probably doesn't belong in the lead section, which should be a summary of the most salient facts in the article. Since there doesn't seem to have been a great deal of media attention paid to this fact, it doesn't appear to meet the most-salient test. Ammodramus ( talk) 04:41, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Brad Ashford's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
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I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 08:56, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
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5x expanded by Jon698 ( talk). Self-nominated at 21:27, 18 May 2020 (UTC).
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Are we not able to get his congressional photo for the infobox? Guyb123321 ( talk) 19:20, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
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I've reverted the addition of "the only incumbent House Democrat defeated by a Republican" to a sentence in the lead regarding Ashford's 2016 loss. The statement is supported by two sources: [1], which is only a list of members defeated in the general election, with their parties; and [2], which states "Just one Democratic incumbent had lost by Wednesday, Nebraska's Brad Ashford"; so was apparently written before it became known that Mike Honda had also lost his seat. This apparently prompted the editor who inserted the statement to add "defeated by a Republican", since Honda lost in the general election to another Democrat.
This, I think, is OR. To salvage it, we'd need a statement from a reliable source stating, in so many words, that Ashford was the only incumbent D who'd lost to an R. Otherwise, we could come up with all kinds of demonstrably true but not especially relevant facts: the only candidate whose name began with "A" defeated by someone whose name began with "B", and so forth.
Moreover, even if the statement can be properly sourced, it probably doesn't belong in the lead section, which should be a summary of the most salient facts in the article. Since there doesn't seem to have been a great deal of media attention paid to this fact, it doesn't appear to meet the most-salient test. Ammodramus ( talk) 04:41, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Brad Ashford's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "Results":
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I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 08:56, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
The result was: promoted by
The Squirrel Conspiracy (
talk)
08:37, 13 June 2020 (UTC)
5x expanded by Jon698 ( talk). Self-nominated at 21:27, 18 May 2020 (UTC).