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[edit] Significance of candidates

What determines significance? Do by-election candidates get pages for the duration at least? Biscit (talk) 11:21, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Generally when put to AfD they have nearly all been deleted unless they are significant in some other way that helps them meet WP:BIO. - Galloglass 13:59, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks Biscit (talk) 14:38, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
OK - what about Edward Timpson?? Biscit (talk) 07:06, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Unless there's more to be added it would almost certainly fail an AfD. - Galloglass 09:53, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Looking at the list of current by-election candidates there only Tamsin Dunwoody and Mike Nattrass would definitely meet the requirements. Gemma Garrett might well pass as well but I'd say that was 50/50. Neither of the others would though at the movement even though theres a reasonable chance both Edward Timpson and Elizabeth Shenton might well be the elected candidate. - Galloglass 10:47, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Would local authorities (and I mean articles about the councils not the land they are responsible for), come under the remit of this project? I'm thinking specifically, the Greater Manchester County Council article. Thanks, --Jza84 |  Talk  11:56, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

I would assume these should come under the project yes, probably ranked low on the importance scale though.PiTalk - Contribs 20:41, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Project category

I have created Category:WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom articles as a category for talk pages of articles that fall under the scope of this project. The category serves the same purpose as Category:Articles Related To UK Politics, but is standardised to match the naming standard used by most other WikiProjects. –Black Falcon (Talk) 19:12, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Assessment

As creating assessment criteria is listed as a major pending task on the Wikiproject's main page I have gone ahead and created an assessment scale and amended the project banner. Like other projects, the assessment is split between quality and importance; the quality scale is taken directly from the Version 1.0 Assessment Criteria, but the importance scale is more subjective. I have made a first attempt to draft an importance scale, but I would like your input on what you think is important for this project. Road Wizard (talk) 21:38, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for that, I didn't know how to do it myself. For assessing importance does there need to be concensus for each article or can they just be done according to the criteria? PiTalk - Contribs 20:47, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Articles will be assessed by individual editors based on the agreed criteria. Having a consensus on the overall criteria will help to reduce the chances of editors disagreeing over individual assessments.
The purpose of assessment is to decide which are the priority articles we want to work on. In theory editors would concentrate on what we see is most important first and then work down from there, though that will depend on how well organised this project becomes. The subject of UK politics is very broad, so if we are not careful we may end up with a thousand or more articles that are judged as "top priority". Road Wizard (talk) 21:01, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Election results archive

Hello, Does anyone know where an archive can be found of election result. A lot of the articles on constituencies only go back to the 90s and it would be good to get them all bit farther back. PiTalk - Contribs 20:43, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

The UK General Election Results - 1832 to 2005 page may be what you are after. It claims to have complete results back to 1945 and summary results back to 1832. Road Wizard (talk) 20:47, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
Ah, thank you very much. I just started adding some and it's quite a tedious task so I'll look into making a semi-automated script to help.PiTalk - Contribs 21:00, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Scope of the Project

It may be useful to define what parts of Wikipedia this project covers. Once we have a list we can either decide to cut back the scope of the project to make things more manageable or set a priority list of what we should concentrate on first. The list below is what I think is currently included within this project. Feel free to add any subjects you think I have missed out. Road Wizard (talk) 07:02, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

  • UK Parliament and devolved parliament/assembly articles
  • Some European Union articles
  • UK constituencies (Parliament/devolved/European) & electoral wards
  • Political parties & lobby/campaign groups (includes unions that are actively involved with Labour)
  • Individual politician articles (all UK politicians; elected, unelected or appointed)
  • Journalists who are notable for their coverage of UK politics (e.g. Jeremy Paxman)
  • Government minister articles (e.g. Home Secretary)
  • Government departments
  • Political issues relevant to the UK (e.g. Abortion)
  • International bodies relevant to UK politics (e.g. NATO)
  • Council & local government articles
  • Legislation - could be narrowed down to "constitutional legislation" (e.g. House of Lords Act 1999)


When you say "unelected" does this refer to members of the house of lords or electoral candidates? PiTalk - Contribs 12:49, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

I was meaning electoral candidates, but I can see how it could have been misread. I am not sure what the exact criteria would be, but if the person's political involvement is notable enough for them to be referred to as a "politician" then I think they fall within the current scope of the project. Road Wizard (talk) 17:26, 10 June 2008 (UTC)