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List of Nova Scotia general elections[edit]

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This is one is different from the previous four, in that it also has a table showing percentage share of vote. Self nomination. Tompw 23:31, 1 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • The Nova Scotia House of Assembly goes back to 1758. I understand if you only want to include post-confederation results, but you should mention in the opening what you are including and spend at least some space talking about the pre-confederation background. --Arctic Gnome 19:20, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    OK, I've expanded the intro accodingly... please take a look.
  • Object I'm afraid- too many redlinks, which is one of the things sepcifically commented on in the Requirements for lists. Also, Artctic Gnome's comments need to be incorporated, and I'd like to see the percentage of vote and number of seats in a single table, as I think that would be more useful. Looking back on the other lists you've done, I see that Saskatchewan gives the total number of seats in the table as well- that'd probably be a useful addition for this and the other lists as well. --G Rutter 19:50, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support Good work (I thought I'd already changed my vote- clearly pressed the wrong button!)! I'd have gone with option 1 anyway (with the addition of (%) on the Vote)- it'd be interesting to do this for the other tables as well (he writes, cheerfully creating more work for other people!). I hope that this one gets through now as well! --G Rutter 20:22, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • You're right on the redlinks issue. I'd forgotten about that one. I shall create brief articles for them all. In the mean time, let's deal with the rest of the issues.
    • Total seats - done.
    • Single table...I thought about this, and two posisble layouts sprang to mind. One is to have a party's seats and votes in adjacent columns (so that info is grouped by party); the other is (essenentially) to have the votes table alongside the seats tabl (so that the info is grouped by type). What the table top look like is shown below. I'm not convinced that either works very well visually.... what do people think? Tompw 20:23, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
      Ignore that... I've gone ahead and combined the tables (using option 1). Only took 20 mins. Tompw 20:50, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Reply: OK... 33 out of the 37 items on the list are now bluelinks all the election back to 1882). I think that satisfies the "large majority of links to existing articles" required by WP:FLC 1a. Tompw 15:54, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support: Not sure about the external link. Doesn't seem specific enough to this page and their historical list doesn't seem any more comprehensive than this. Colin°Talk 17:37, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support -- Rune.welsh | ταλκ 19:15, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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