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Wards that merge and then split again

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Hi, I am wondering what the protocol is for making pages for electoral wards that were originally single wards, then merged with other wards only to become a single ward aagain. For example eastcote ward of Hillingdon London Borough Council. It started out as a seperate ward then became part of Eastcote and East Ruislip ward in 2002 and then became a single ward again in 2022.


Should the name be Eastcote (ward) for the first idnependent ward the Eastcote (2022 ward) for the second or should it be one page and just mention both time frames within the page? TheHaloVeteran2 (talk) 13:25, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It seems revived constituencies have separate articles. See, for example, Cardiff East (UK Parliament constituency) and Cardiff East (1918–1950 UK Parliament constituency). Howard the Duck (talk) 13:45, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I would recommend a single article rather than two, particularly at the local level instead of Parliament where more coverage exists. But I don't think local electoral districts should generally have standalone articles either. Reywas92Talk 00:19, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
US state legislatures have articles about specific districts like California's 1st senatorial district for the California State Senate (contrast to California's 1st congressional district for the US House of Representatives). Staying in California, there are articles about Los Angeles City Council districts, such as Los Angeles's 1st City Council district, which is rather well developed.
If WP:GNG can be found on local constituencies, nothing is holding back a person from writing an article about it.
Staying on the original question though, in numbered districts, the article remains about the numbered district even if the actual places had changed. For example, in California's 1st congressional district, at its earliest it was mostly centered in southern California, then to San Francisco, then the Bay Area, northeastern California, now it's at northwestern California; it's been all over the state. Howard the Duck (talk) 11:21, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
In Canada, revived constituencies always go in the same article, unless the boundaries are radically different (and even then, this hasn't always been the case). I don't see what the need is for multiple articles. -- Earl Andrew - talk 13:37, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
What do reliable sources do? CMD (talk) 01:01, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Colors

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How would I determine the color of an Italian political party? Some of them have commonly associated ones (like centere left or right coalitions) but others don’t have official colors. How would I go about finding and determining the colors of a party? Vestrix (talk) 18:44, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Usually it is the dominant colour on their logo, or one used by them in their campaigns. Number 57 22:56, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If it's an already major maexisting party, it should have its own color already which you can see at Module:Political party/1 (and A to Z). Howard the Duck (talk) 10:28, 7 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Consular Agencies

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So there is a series of articles I wrote called consular agencies of Belgium and consular agencies of Albania and they only include honorary consular agencies. Should I add the non honorary ones or should I change the titles to specify? Vestrix (talk) 03:51, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Anyone want to request the reboot of this project to be featured by the WikiProject Desk in The Signpost? rootsmusic (talk) 19:05, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Instituto Nacional Electoral#Requested move 4 June 2025

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There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Instituto Nacional Electoral#Requested move 4 June 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. CNC (talk) 13:58, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

rightdatausa.com and ballotwire.com: Reliable sources?

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Hi, everyone. One of my present pursuits on Wikipedia is to add tables displaying county-based voting results for state and federal US elections. While I was finding sources for my next table(s), I came across rightdataUSA.com, which has very detailed analyses of election stats, as well as statistical profiles of American politicians and even Census data. For example, this is a link to their 2014 Wisconsin gubernatorial election page. While I'm not a fan of Right Data demarking Republicans as blue and Democrats as red, I'll put that aside at present and point out that there is no evidence to my eye at least that Right Data USA is user-generated content. What is particularly useful is that Right Data has county stats of US House elections (One example, CO-3 in 2022), and even has limited stats on state races such as Secretary of State, Auditor, Attorney General, etc.

While writing this post, I also came across Ballotwire.com. It appears to have generalized election coverage, and statistical data of US elections, especially since 2016. (Also, the colors are conventional with this website.) However, the county stats are only available for Senate, Governor, and President elections; and it does not touch much on non-gubernatorial statewide races. I believe Ballot Wire could be very useful on Wikipedia, permitting that it abides by source guidelines.

What are your thoughts on these two websites? Right Data has only three positive search results on Wikipedia (now four with this post), while Ballot Wire has none. And does anyone know where a list is on Wikipedia which details reliable sources specifically for USA election stats, if such a list exists here? Any input is appreciate.

Mungo Kitsch (talk) 04:04, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

These have the same as Dave Leip's Atlas where, a lot of times, they don't say where they get the information, which causes problems when they misreport or have old provisional data. Election data from each state's State Board of Elections, SOS, or the Federal Election Commission should be used wherever possible. At first glance, I don't see any bias with Ballotwire, so it should be fine for just the election coverage, but information from the sources listed at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources should be preferable when possible. Wowzers122 (talk) 10:33, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Poll inclusion criteria

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What is the typical inclusion criteria for election polls? i.e. what is the standard for quality? When there are a variety of independent sources, why include those sponsored by a specific campaign, PAC, or other organization aligned with a specific candidate? — Rhododendrites talk \\ 14:06, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that we've ever discussed the general inclusion criteria for opinion polls, but I have instead seen discussions regarding this for the UK, for example, which IMO should also be followed for other countries. Every country has different polling standards: in some countries there are both high-quality and low-quality pollsters and in some there are only low-quality pollsters. Looking by your contributions, I assume that you want to know this because of the NYC Democratic primary mayoral polls that were commissioned by PACs and campaigns. IMO, for NYC, we should instead look at the quality of these polls (whether they only published the numbers, or did they also include more methodology data), and if they're high-quality, we should include them in the article. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 17:05, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RfC on changing the article title format for local elections

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People might want to give their input here. Cheers, Number 57 23:12, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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