Talk:Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party (UK)

Citations Please
In the context of article quality issues with Teresa May being about to go into In The news as the new British PM, I noted that Teresa May was being given a George Osborne as her Deputy leader (until he was removed from her infobox after I added a 'citation needed'). Every recent leader of the Conservative party has one or more deputies in his/her infobox, seemingly based on a list recently removed from this article for lack of citations (this article currently has no citations whatsoever). The issue can be swept under the carpet by removing Osborne from her infobox as a quick fix, but doing that will just leave the quality issue unfixed in many of the articles to which our readers can be expected to link from her article. I have neither the time nor the interest nor the competence to fix it myself, but I'm mentioning it here (and in the Talk page of her bio article and in her In The News candidates section) in the hope of bringing it to the attention of those who will know what to do about it.Tlhslobus (talk) 10:01, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

I've now added the possible Original Research tag as a warning to our readers and to encourage a proper fix. Tlhslobus (talk) 10:17, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

I've now restored the deleted list, added a few citations, and added 'citation needed' to almost everything (even where there are citations, they currently confirm the date ranges in only one instance, and that entry (Osborne 2005-2009) wasn't in the original list). Having done so, I will now also be restoring the May Contain Original Research tag that I removed after providing a few citations for the article without the deleted list, which at the time left me needing only 3 CNs. Tlhslobus (talk) 11:29, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

I may or may not look for a few more citations myself, but don't count on me doing so - this should probably really be done by those who are sufficiently interested in the topic to have created the list in the first place. Tlhslobus (talk) 11:43, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

I have now removed the OR tag placed earlier by me, as all the issues now seem either resolved or flagged with a relatively small number of CNs. Please feel free to restore the tag if you feel removal was premature (perhaps because there are still half a dozen CNs left in one section). Tlhslobus (talk) 21:57, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks to all who helped tidy up the article, especially Therequiembellishere. Tlhslobus (talk) 22:01, 26 July 2016 (UTC)

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Proposed Merge to Leader of the Conservative Party (UK)
I beg to move that this article is merged on the the LOTCPUK article for 2 reasons: ·The office is not currently in use and has no official role within the party's constitution ·Very few people have been appointed to the office 82.41.12.175 (talk) 10:25, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Support – this isn't a notable topic or one we can encyclopaedically say enough about for an independent article to be viable. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 15:36, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Support as long as the information in the article is still retained in some form, e.g. the prose and the list of officeholders. Tim O&#39;Doherty (talk) 18:28, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Support - There isn't much content on this page anyway. DDMS123 (talk) 04:11, 17 March 2023 (UTC)