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Fringe candidates
An editor recently added
Rocky De La Fuente as a Republican candidate, and I reverted. I believe that fringe candidates should not be included in this navbox, unless and until their campaign receives substantial RS attention. Same reasoning for Democratic "vanity" candidates such as
Michael E. Arth: apparently there are 275 of them… —
JFGtalk 20:38, 13 August 2019 (UTC)reply
De La Fuente is not a "fringe candidate", unlike the myriad of random people who've filed FEC intent to run forms. De La Fuente has transfered millions of dollars into his campaign account and is actively involved in campaigning. Even if he doesn't meet the standard of being a "major candidate" his campaign is still notable considering his lawsuit against California's presidential tax return disclosure law and the amount of money he is spending on his campaign.
XavierGreen (
talk) 20:12, 14 August 2019 (UTC)reply
Suggestion for additional entries
There are a nunber of articles on topics closely tied to this election and that take up a large part in current coverage of the election, yet are kinda orphaned when it comes to being included in this template. Hence, I suggest their inclusion:
The way the additional parties that supported Biden (Independent Party Working, Families Party) and Trump (Conservative Party, Right to Life Party) makes it appear that the primaries for the Democratic and Republican parties, respectively, involved these parties, which they did not. Perhaps find a different manner of including them in the infobox, or exclude them altogether. But the current manner they are included is pretty problematic.
SecretName101 (
talk) 21:18, 26 February 2021 (UTC)reply