Wikipedia:WikiProject Electoral districts in Canada/Infobox

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A template for an infobox has been posted. Obviously it should include a map, but what other data should it include? Which demographics? From what years? Are the proposed maps as good as they can be? If not, what can improve them?

Examples: Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo, Winnipeg Centre

Other Examples: Ottawa Centre, Aberdeen North (UK Parliament constituency)

[edit] Comments

The Ontario should be used. The area and population should be in a separate box. -- Earl Andrew - talk 05:01, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

  • Concerning the Ontario box, the MPP section is not relevant to other province since Ontario is the only one that has that direct overlap. I'm ok with province-specific infobox to consider these quirks. I don't understand the linkage between electoral districts and CDs/CSDs. In the example they claim "Ottawa" is the CD and CSD and they both link to the City of Ottawa's Wikipedia page (is the City really the CD, obviously it is too big to be a CSD). As the article doesn't explain this and I'm a non-expert, can you explain how CD and CSD relate to electoral districts? Also, how do "Ottawa city wards" relate to federal (or provincial) electoral districts? --maclean25 01:10, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
    • Ottawa is both a census division and a census subdivision. CSD's are like municipalities, while CD's are like counties, or in your case Regional Districts. I think they are of some interest. I also thought the city wards would be of interest too.-- Earl Andrew - talk 02:14, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Here's what I think:

  • I prefer the information presented in the Ontario infobox, but not its formatting;
  • the population figures and electors should be presented in the election results infoboxes, since the information isn't static between elections;
  • the maps don't provide enough context of the area (the one for Kamloops is good, but you couldn't use that for Vancouver);
  • obviously, it should be used only for the current version of the district
  • we could provide some colouring/border/whatever to indicate its current incumbent party

That's all I've got for now... Mindmatrix 20:57, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

I like that last idea! It would be neat. It might difficult for Ontario, as some districts are held by a different party provincially then federally. -- Earl Andrew - talk 21:14, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
Another reason to split the districts ;) - Jord 23:56, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Here's something: I got bored @ work and made pretty boxes, one of which I thought would make a good infobox for the Canadian federal ridings. See, e.g., Avalon (electoral district) or Cardigan (electoral district). I'm still not too sure what to do w/ all the location-names (cities, villages, etc.). I think it important to include them all (or at least most of them) to be complete, but is the infobox the best medium? I had it as a listing for a while, but that took up way too much room (even in 2 columns), but in the infobox they're condensed, divided by type of place, and (hopefully) useful. I also stopped at Ontario as the discussion of fed+prov or separate pages still goes on (I would vote to have separate pages, upon completion these pages are going to be huge, e.g., Labrador (electoral district), and having the provincial info on there will just make it that much more bigger. FUNgus guy 21:35, 5 December 2006 (UTC)