Talk:Ministerialists and Oppositionists

Contested deletion
This page should not be speedily deleted because... (your reason here) --Oldbiggles (talk) 00:00, 8 September 2012 (UTC)This is a factual description of the term "Opposition" as it applied to the early Western Australian Parliament

This page should not be speedy deleted because...
This page should not be speedily deleted because... It is a factual description of the term "Opposition" as applied to the early Post-Federation Parliaments of Western Australia. Any good reference (including almost all Western Australian Newspapers reports of the time) to the Political scene in Western Australia in the time around Federation (1901) will confirm the text is correct and genuine. The easiest reference is the list of Premiers of Western Austraia which will show the rapid changes of government (and Premier) along with the term "Opposition" as applied to the party of Premiers George Leake (twice) and Walter James. --Oldbiggles (talk) 00:24, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I propose merging Opposition (Western Australia) into Ministerialists and Oppositionists (Western Australia). The articles overlap and a merger would not cause any article-size or weighting problems in Ministerialists and Oppositionists (Western Australia). -DilatoryRevolution (talk) 02:24, 15 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Support Merge I was not even aware this article existed, there are so few links to it. The scope of this article is clearly about both Ministerialists and Oppositionists. If this is merged, this article could be recreated under the same scope as Opposition (Queensland), where it is about the largest non-government party in modern times. Steelkamp (talk) 09:27, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Support Merge JarrahTree 13:08, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment: I note that "Opposition (Western Australia)" is the older article with a more extensive edit history. It's my view that the "Opposition" page should be maintained but moved to "Ministerialists and Oppositionists (Western Australia)" and the article at that name should have its article history moved elsewhere. --DilatoryRevolution (talk) 12:10, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

Requested move 27 August 2022

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: Withdrawn (assumed based on RM/TR request. (closed by non-admin page mover) ASUKITE  13:42, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

Opposition (Western Australia) → Ministerialists and Oppositionists (Western Australia) – As per merger disussion. DilatoryRevolution (talk) 09:00, 27 August 2022 (UTC)


 * Can't this just be filed at Requested moves/Technical requests? I don't think we need a second discussion when we reached consensus above. Steelkamp (talk) 09:29, 27 August 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.