Talk:2012 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina

This article is in need of serious clean-up efforts.

I will be adding results tables for each election. I also propose that the sections be rewritten for clarity and to reflect that the elections are (more or less) over. Historical references are fine to the extent that they remain notable, but at present this sort of reads like a play by play and I'm not sure that adds any value to the finished product.

We should also consider either moving the campaign websites links to a external links section or deleting them altogether. They're not really relevant any longer and the majority of them will probably be dead links soon. Elcid89 (talk) 15:28, 13 November 2012 (UTC)

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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 :2012 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina'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 "primaryresults":

• From 2014 United States Senate election in North Carolina: [https://er.ncsbe.gov/?election_dt=05/06/2014&county_id=0&office=FED&contest=0 NC State Board of Elections website]
• From 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in New Jersey: [https://www.state.nj.us/state/elections/assets/pdf/election-results/2012/2012-official-primary-results-house-of-rep-0723.pdf NJ Division of Elections]
• From 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Minnesota: https://www.leg.state.mn.us/archive/sessions/electionresults/2012-08-14-p-man.pdf
• From 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Georgia: http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/GA/40378/95366/en/summary.html#
• From 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Iowa: {{cite web|url=http://sos.iowa.gov/elections/pdf/2012/primary/canvsummary.pdf|format=PDF|title=2012 Primary Election Canvass Summary|publisher=Iowa Secretary of State|accessdate=November 17, 2012}}
• From 2014 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina: {{Cite web |url=http://enr.ncsbe.gov/ElectionResults/?election_dt=05%2F06%2F2014 |title=NC State Board of Elections website |access-date=January 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141231034108/http://enr.ncsbe.gov/ElectionResults/?election_dt=05%2F06%2F2014 |archive-date=December 31, 2014 |dead-url=yes |df=mdy-all }}
• From 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina: [http://er.ncsbe.gov/?election_dt=06/07/2016&county_id=0&office=FED&contest=0 NC State Board of Elections website: June 7 federal primary election results]

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⚡ 09:11, 19 March 2019 (UTC)