Talk:Sharice Davids

A fact from Sharice Davids appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 December 2018 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that US Representative-elect Sharice Davids is a former mixed martial arts fighter?

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Untitled[edit]

A citation was requested for the subject's date of birth. I found citations from GLOBEintel, birthday announcement on Facebook with dozens of friends wishing her happy birthday, and other sources. The GLOBEintel cite also listed education at Haskell Indian Nations U., and the UK, prior to her entering a degree program Johnson County C.C. Both Haskell and UK are in Lawrence, fairly local to Olathe, KS, her residence a dozen years ago. Activist (talk) 02:04, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for speedy deletion[edit]

The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page has been nominated for speedy deletion:

Sharice Davids official portrait.jpg

You can see the reason for deletion at the file description page linked above. —Community Tech bot (talk) 02:52, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for speedy deletion[edit]

The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page has been nominated for speedy deletion:

Rep. Sharice Davids official photo.jpg

You can see the reason for deletion at the file description page linked above. —Community Tech bot (talk) 18:06, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Adding office image[edit]

Here is the link. I do not know how to add it Bergmanucsd (talk) 21:56, 15 January 2019 (UTC)bergmanucsd https://davids.house.gov/sites/davids.house.gov/files/wysiwyg_uploaded/Rep-Davids.jpg[reply]

Reverted numerous inappropriate deletions[edit]

I can't fathom any reasonable explanation for numerous consecutive deletions mostly by one editor. The only edit that seemed valid was to unbold some titles. One deletion merely shuffled an inaccurate claim, rather than correcting it, the time since a Democrat last represented this district. Activist (talk) 11:16, 18 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thankfully you were here to save the day with helpful edits like changing "person representing" to "represen" 😜 Marquardtika (talk) 14:24, 18 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Was Davids named as "one of the Pride50?[edit]

@Gleeanon409: I cannot find "Davids" in the webpage cited for the following:

In June 2019, to mark the [[Stonewall 50 – WorldPride NYC 2019|50th anniversary]] of the [[Stonewall riots]], an event widely considered a watershed moment in the modern [[LGBT rights movement]], ''[[Queerty]]'' named her one of the ''Pride50'' "trailblazing individuals who actively ensure society remains moving towards [[LGBT equality|equality]], acceptance and dignity for all [[queer]] people".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Queerty Pride50 2019 Honorees|url=https://www.queerty.com/pride50|access-date=2019-06-18|website=Queerty|language=en-US}}</ref>

Accordingly, I'm reverting your restoration. If the cite supported the claim, the statement would be fine, I think.

Thanks for your support of Wikipedia. DavidMCEddy (talk) 04:01, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

She was nominated but didn’t win, should be removed. Gleeanon409 (talk) 04:20, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Gleeanon409: Thanks. How did you figure that out? Memory of the nomination? DavidMCEddy (talk) 04:36, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

When Queerty has done these lists in the last few years they run a piece on the recipients as well. I searched the site for Sharice’s name and saw she was a nominee. Gleeanon409 (talk) 06:46, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Great. Thanks. DavidMCEddy (talk) 13:13, 19 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Update. It bothered me that I would have made such an error. In rechecking it turns out Queerty recycled the Pride50 splash page. Gleeanon409 (talk) 01:34, 20 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations. Before I reverted it, I checked archive.org and couldn't find it. I'm glad you did. DavidMCEddy (talk) 01:43, 20 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sourcing[edit]

I reverted the clear BLP violation. The story to which the edits had been sourced doesn't say she's personally liable for the debt. The business has no assets. The contention was sourced to a paywalled piece by a SPA of very brief existence 11 months ago, one who had been editing only KS political articles, 7 edits in 30 hours in February 2021, and 38 in two days in March 2021. Activist 15:02, 5 February 2022 (UTC) Activist (talk) 07:46, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Gerrymandering is an attack on democracy and Davids in particular[edit]

@Marquardtika: The text you just deleted begins, "A video surfaced in October 2020 in which then-Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle had encouraged Republican party donors to assist in .. the redistricting mandated by the 2020 census, and focusing on the Third District incumbent". The Third District is David's district. That's blatant gerrymandering. I'm therefore reverting your deletion. DavidMCEddy (talk) 17:01, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

DavidMCEddy, we are not here to WP:RGW. Don't edit war. It stays out of the article unless it develops consensus to include. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:06, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This material may make sense at Susan Wagle, Kansas's 3rd congressional district, 2020 United States redistricting cycle, or Kansas's congressional districts. But putting it here is a stretch, as the source material doesn't tie anything to Davids. Marquardtika (talk) 17:20, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

How can documentation of a partisan effort to gerrymander a politician out of their district NOT be relevant to the incumbent of said district? Isn't that equivalent to saying that substantive documentation relating to the current head of the Church of Rome is NOT relevant to Pope Francis? DavidMCEddy (talk) 17:37, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You could try rewriting the content in a way that isn't drowning in POV wording ("By contrast, to insure equitability...") We're going for encyclopedia article, not DNC fundraising email. Marquardtika (talk) 20:03, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Response[edit]

I was asked why I had posted info about redistricting at the article for Sharice Davids. The reason was that I had written a more comprehensive explanation, but somehow Wikipedia closed the editing section of the article as I was finishing, erasing considerable research) I'd included plenty of citations in which Republican leadership was taken to task, even by other Kansas legislative Republicans, for redistricting the home of Sharice Davids, who has lived and gone to school most of her life in the heavily Democratic metro Kansas City (i.e., Wyandotte County) area, and the adjacent Johnson and Douglas Counties, KS, and Jackson County, Missouri (when she attended the University of Missouri, KC campus), into another district including mostly farm country in far Western Kansas, from St. Francis, Kansas in Cheyenne County, Kansas which borders Colorado and Nebraska, to Elkhart, Kansas, in Morton County, Kansas, on the Oklahoma border, eight miles from Colorado, perhaps 15 miles from the Texas Panhandle, and some 60 miles from New Mexico. They reputedly are anxious to tell those immensely Republican voters who live 400 miles from her home that she is a lesbian, Native American of the Ho-Chunk/Winnebago Tribe, single mom, former professional martial arts competitor and an attorney, so most of those newly intended constituents can find something sufficiently objectionable about her so that a recycled or new challenger can recruit enough white voters to get rid of her for them. It is America, after all. Activist (talk) 17:29, 14 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]