Talk:Electoral district of Gisborne

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Merge of Electoral results for the district of Gisborne[edit]

There is no point in having a separate article on the results as both articles are not large. The new article, giving valuable results on previous elections, should be merged here. Please discuss below. --Bduke (Discussion) 10:38, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Support as nominator. --Bduke (Discussion) 10:38, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. I don't know if that would be a good thing. There's already hundreds of pages such as these already up. It has been standard procedure for the Australian Politics project to have results pages separate from the electorate pages no matter how small they are, since it gives room for the electorate pages to expand with information such as maps, redistributions, information about notable elections and sitting members. If this merger was agreed to, then it would be grounds for all results pages in the project to be merged to their original pages. Kirsdarke01 (talk) 09:26, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thoroughly oppose. To begin with, the results page still has another ten years or so of result to add. But the main reason is that if these move back to the electorate pages, they instantly dominate them - monstrously, in fact. This was the reason behind the original decision to have the past results on a separate page. This allows us to have the most "important" result - the most recent one - prominent on the electorate page and a nice place to store the historical ones. I also think it would be best to keep these consistent - i.e., all electorates should have a separate results page or none of them should - and there are unquestionably pages (like Electoral results for the Division of Werriwa) where the results pages themselves are almost long enough to split. There's no harm in having the two pages, and it keeps the pages about electorates (which should also be about geography, enrolment, etc.) from becoming glorified results pages. Frickeg (talk) 10:23, 16 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thoroughly oppose. These pages were created because this information is way, way too much for inclusion in the main articles. The Drover's Wife (talk) 01:12, 17 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There is clearly no support for this, so I will withdraw the proposal. --Bduke (Discussion) 10:54, 31 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]