Talk:2020 United States presidential election

Latest comment: 15 days ago by FifthFive in topic Semi-protected edit request on 8 November 2024
Former good article nominee2020 United States presidential election was a good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
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October 30, 2015Articles for deletionKept
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Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 22, 2015.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that potential candidates in the United States presidential election of 2020 include Tom Cotton, Hillary Clinton, and Kanye West?
In the news A news item involving this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "In the news" column on November 7, 2020.
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question? about the infobox:

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States carried:

25 + DC + NE-02

25 + ME-02


Why are ME-02 and NE-02 included as States carried ?

69.181.17.113 (talk) 01:37, 25 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

Because they each count as an electoral vote. --Super Goku V (talk) 10:34, 8 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Lead sentence wording discussion

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I have proposed that the lead sentences of the articles about US presidential elections be reworded. The discussion is here. Surtsicna (talk) 18:15, 4 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Semi-protected edit request on 7 November 2024

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Change Turnout from 66.6% to 92.4%.

There was 168.3 registered voters in 2020 and this article shows 155.5 people voted. That means 92.4% of voters voted. Registered voter’s reference: https://www.statista.com/statistics/273743/number-of-registered-voters-in-the-united-states/ 98.176.156.153 (talk) 23:29, 7 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

  Not done: per the citation, the denominator is all voting-age citizens. Hyphenation Expert (talk) 01:37, 8 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

Semi-protected edit request on 8 November 2024

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The US Elections Project citations are a mess. There are three copies of the citation on the page:

<ref>{{Cite web|title=US Elections Project – 2020g|url=https://www.electproject.org/2020g|access-date=November 14, 2022|website=www.electproject.org|archive-date=April 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430220622/http://www.electproject.org/2020g|url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref>{{Cite web|title=US Elections Project – 2016g|url=https://www.electproject.org/2020g|access-date=November 14, 2022|website=www.electproject.org|archive-date=April 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430220622/http://www.electproject.org/2020g|url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.electproject.org/2020g|title=2020 November general election turnout rates|work=United States Election Project|date=October 7, 2020|access-date=November 8, 2020|archive-date=November 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107042631/http://www.electproject.org/2020g|url-status=live}}</ref>

The first one is mostly correct. The second one was supposed to cite turnout from 2016, but the URL is wrong. The third one is fine, but it duplicates the first one.

I suggest replacing the first one with

<ref name="Elections Project 2020g">{{Cite web|title=2020 November General Election Turnout Rates|work=United States Election Project|url=https://www.electproject.org/2020g|access-date=November 14, 2022|website=www.electproject.org|archive-date=April 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430220622/http://www.electproject.org/2020g|url-status=live</ref>

the second one with

<ref>{{Cite web|title=2016 November General Election Turnout Rates|work=United States Election Project|url=https://www.electproject.org/2016g|website=www.electproject.org|url-status=live</ref>

and the third one with

<ref name="Elections Project 2020g"/>

. 185.47.220.165 (talk) 20:56, 8 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

  Done, thanks. DrOrinScrivello (talk) 22:57, 13 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
Oops, sorry, I forgot the closing braces (}}) for the templates, so they do not render correctly. I didn't notice my mistake because I couldn't preview the change. Could you (or someone else) please add them in? Thanks 185.47.220.165 (talk) 23:10, 18 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
  Done Thanks for the citation cleanup - I've made the changes, without any attempt going wrong.. FifthFive (talk) 00:08, 19 November 2024 (UTC)Reply