Talk:Candidates of the 2007 New South Wales state election

Untitled
Oh my, this is a mess. I think this must have been a cut and paste job from the Candidates of the Queensland legislative election, 2006 page with the author intending to update it someday (and they have written in the article space!) but this page has existed for nearly a month and nothing has happenend. The author really should have made a draft in this user space first. I am not sure what we should do though. A page like this would be useful if it existed, so I don't want to nominate it for deletion. At the same time it reflects poorly on Wikipedia. So could someone either update it, or can we have any ideas on where we go to from here (can we move it to a draft page, for example), Teiresias84 01:25, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * The aforementioned issues have now been fixed. Thank you anonymous editor. Teiresias84 12:34, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Link Policy
I'd like to propose a small policy, for this page only: that names not be linked by default, that only notable candidates get links. The huge number of red links on this page is just begging for vanity pages which already spring up faster than we can delete them. And, worse, many of the blue links are to completely different people with the same name!

A more sensible approach would be, when adding names to the list, only make them links if a page already exists. Or, if everyone is dying to have a link to click, then we make external links instead of red links, just to remove that temptation to create vanity pages.

What do people think?

Nick 20:32, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Excellent idea Nick let's do it 203.213.96.83 02:51, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Abolished electorates & new electorates
Someone has restored the list of abolished and newly created electorates. I don't believe we should include that, for two reasons. Firstly, it is very misleading. With the exception of Lachlan being abolished, and Southern Highlands being split into Wollondilly and Goulburn, those seats are simply being renamed, not being abolished. Bligh becomes Sydney, Illawarra becomes Shellharbour, etc, etc. As well as this, those who are retiring weren't listed under the list of retiring MPs, as if it is assumed that all members for abolished electorates will be retiring. Also, all of those seats called "new electorate" in the list have a notional status as to which party holds it. Ben Raue (Talk) 00:44, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Electorates have to be known by their correct names at the time. This can't be handled by redirects.  Redirecting Gosford to Peats and the Terrigal to Gosford doesn't work.  Besides the new electorates are going to be around for a while.  Moving Port Jackson to Balmain would also cause confusion.  There is no problem in showing Chris Hartcher as the sitting member for Terrigal.--Grahamec 04:02, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I haven't suggested moving the articles from, say, Port Jackson to Balmain. What I am talking about is creating a section listing the seats that have been "abolished", which when considered in the context of a list of candidates, suggests that all those MPs are retiring because of their seats, when in fact most of them will continue in electorates very similar to their current seats, with a different name. Ben Raue (Talk) 05:02, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

Useless blue links
A link has been added to Mark Spencer, who is clearly not the Mark Spencer standing for the Liberals in Blacktown and is unlikely to win the seat. I can't see the point in disambiguating this because he is unlikely to become notable any time soon. I suppose the easiest thing to do would be to unlink it.--Grahamec 10:23, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

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