Wikipedia:WikiProject British Government

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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to the British Government. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

1 Title
2 Scope
3 Parentage
4 Descendant WikiProjects
5 Similar WikiProjects
6 Participants
7 Structure
8 Templates
9 Hierarchy definition
10 Goals
11 General strategy and discussion forums
12 Succession Tables
13 Categories
14 Offices that take succession tables

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WikiProject on British Government

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This WikiProject defines conventions for the succession tables that should be located at the very end of every member of the British government who held one of the enumerated offices defined later on this page.

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Each article on a member of the British government should include, at the bottom, a succession table (defined in the Succession Tables section below), and a link to several relevant categories. Additionally, Prime Ministers have a specific infobox.

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{{WikiProject British Government}} - the project banner, to be added to the talk pages of all relevant articles.
{{User WikiProject British Government}} - a userbox for use by members on their user pages.

[edit] Hierarchy definition

No classification of this project has been defined.

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To facilitate navigation between members of a similar office, and to illustrate a specific statesman's passage through various different positions throughout his political career.

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

/General
/Strategy
The Talk Page

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{{succession box | title=[[Name of Position]] | years=xxxx–yyyy | before=[[Name of Preceding Statesman]] | after=[[Name of Succeeding Statesman]]}}
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There are specific conventions for peers:

Peers and peeresses in their own rights get simply a "The" affixed to their peerage: The Earl of Wilmington; The Duke of Wellington. Barons are termed "The Lord X" rather than "The Baron X". Baronesses remain "The Baroness X."
Courtesy peers follow the same rules as above, except they omit the "The": Viscount Castlereagh, Lord North.

Other conventions:

When noting a statesman who is preceding the guy you're writing about, use the most senior title he had when he left office. Therefore, Robert Walpole should not be noted as The Earl of Orford on Spencer Compton's page, even though he became Earl of Orford immediately after leaving his position as Prime Minister.
When noting a statesman who is following the guy you're writing about, use the most senior title he had when he entered office. For some cases, exceptions may be made: Alec Douglas-Home should probably not be termed "The Earl of Home".

Date conventions:

Use – for dates. Please don't use —, although hyphens are not as bad.
When the given person served during only one year, simply write the year: 1999. If he/she served for more than two years, write out both years: 1986–1987.