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The purpose of this '''[[Wikipedia:Requests for comment|request for comment]]''' is to provide an opportunity to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the '''[[Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2025|December 2025 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election]]''' and resolve any issues not covered by the [[Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections/ACERFC decisions to date|existing rules]]. 05:44, 1 September 2025 (UTC)}}

There's been an ongoing debate on pages for elections in the US about what kind of sourcing you need to move a candidate from the "Filed paperwork" or "Potential" section to "Declared." A lot of editors seem to agree that an [[Federal Election Commission|FEC]] filing is not enough, because it is very common for people to file with the FEC without ever actually campaigning. Ideally, we want to cite a news article that says the candidate is running. However, it's easy to find candidates who've filed with the FEC and launched a campaign website but who haven't been mentioned in any news articles. Moreover, some news articles say that a candidate is running purely because they've filed with the FEC, even though the candidate has no online campaign presence and the author of the news article doesn't seem to have reached out to them to confirm they're actually running. In my eyes, there are three proposals for how to deal with this:

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Should the Contents link be removed from the sidebar? [[User:Interstellarity|Interstellarity]] ([[User talk:Interstellarity|talk]]) 13:20, 22 August 2025 (UTC)}}

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We had an RFC earlier this year around how to handle LLM/AI generated comments. That resulted in [[WP:HATGPT]] after further discussion at [[WT:TPG]]. Recently, an editor [[Special:Diff/1304748131|started a requested move using LLM generated content]]. I ran that content through two different AI/LLM detection utilities: GPT Zero says "highly confident", and 100% AI generated; Quillbot stated 72% of the text was likely AI generated.

Should HATGPT be expanded to allow for the closure of discussions seeking community input (RFC/VPR/CENT/RFAR/AFD/RM/TFD/RFD/FFD/etc) that are started utilizing content that registers as being majority written by AI?

1. Maintain the current system. A candidate can only be moved to "Declared" if there is an article from a [[WP:RS|reliable news source]] that says they're running.

I was tempted to just start an RFC on this, but if there's alternate proposals or an existing [[WP:PAG]] that already covers this, I'm all ears. =) —[[User:Locke Cole|Locke Cole]] • [[User talk:Locke Cole|t]] • [[Special:Contributions/Locke Cole|c]] 00:38, 12 August 2025 (UTC)}}

2. Allow someone to be listed in "Declared" if they have filed with the FEC or the relevant state/local elections agency.

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3. Allow someone to be listed in "Declared" with two citations: first, a filing with the FEC or the relevant state/local elections agency, and second, a self-published source from the candidate that says they're running--e.g. a campaign website, campaign social media account, or fundraising page where the candidate explicitly says they're running (so "I'm exploring a candidacy" or something like that wouldn't be good enough).

Should the icons in the [[Module:Message box/configuration|message box module]] be updated from the current Ambox ones to the Codex ones? 13:56, 11 August 2025 (UTC)}}

Which do you think is the best path? [[User:BottleOfChocolateMilk|BottleOfChocolateMilk]] ([[User talk:BottleOfChocolateMilk|talk]]) 15:57, 25 July 2025 (UTC)}}

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