Talk:2014 Wisconsin gubernatorial election

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Orphaned references in Wisconsin gubernatorial election, 2014

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 Wisconsin gubernatorial election, 2014'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":

From Oklahoma gubernatorial election, 2014: "Official Results - Primary Election" (PDF). Oklahoma Secretary of State. July 7, 2014. Retrieved July 30, 2014.
From United States presidential election in Wisconsin, 1992: "1992 Presidential General Election Results - Wisconsin". U.S. Election Atlas. Retrieved 11 June 2012.
From San Diego mayoral special election, 2013–2014: "Election History - Mayor of San Diego" (PDF). City of San Diego. Retrieved December 23, 2012.
From Tom Barrett (politician): Election Map 2012: Live Voting Results - POLITICO.com
From United States House of Representatives elections in West Virginia, 2014: "Mooney wins crowded GOP House primary; Capito, Tennant to face off in W.Va. Senate race". Fox News. May 13, 2014. Retrieved May 23, 2014.
From Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election: "Election Map 2012: Live Voting Results". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2013-07-01.

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 ⚡ 22:46, 5 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Listing both seats in the infobox

@SecretName101 just wanted to explain my revert in full. So the offices of Lieutenant Governor and Governor are elected on a single ticket as a result of an amendment in thr late 1960s or if I am mistaken the 1970s. As a result this means separate elections for the Lieutenant Governorship ended in 1968. BUT as part of the amendment, it left primaries for the two offices separate and, for the importance of this section, it allowed the two offices to be recalled independently of each other. So I think it's erroneous to list in the Governor election infobox a recall election for a set of offices that are elected on the same ballot as one entity. For all intents and purposes, the last general election for this seat was 1968, and then the 2012 recall is its own thing, so it doesn't seem right to have the listed "composite" and separate recall sections on the various infoboxes listed separately. If that all makes sense? Talthiel (talk) 23:46, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Talthiel They share a general election (which is what is represented in the infobox, not primaries) in regularly-scheduled elections. But not recalls. The recalls for governor and lieutenant governor were separate general elections in 2012 because they were separate recalls. 2012 recalls were (for all intents and purposes) a separate general election for lieutenant governor: albeit one during a recall and not regularly-scheduled election. SecretName101 (talk) 14:48, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]