Talk:Stanstead (electoral district)

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Here is way I reverted Esteffect's edits:

1. Stanstead does not exist, so "was a federal electoral district" works perfectly well: the past tense is commonly used to describe something that existed in the past. "Is a former" is a different, les direct way of saying that. "Stanstead electoral district" is no longer anyting -- it does not exist.
2. The Wikipedia:Manual of Style (dates and numbers)#Usage of links for date preferences says that we should not link years, unless they are part opf a complete date, when it is done to enable user date format preference.
3. Stanstead was never active in the House of Commons. It was an inanimate object. The electoral district was a chunk of territory outlined on a map that just sat there quite oblivious to the fact that it was represented in the House of Commons.

Ground Zero | t 13:25, 23 February 2006 (UTC)