Talk:Ministry of Power (United Kingdom)

Merge Proposal
We should merge these two articles because it is the same minister, but before, and after the name change. - Flubeca Talk 18:47, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

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David Renton
In the section Parliamentary Secretaries, the line showing the tenure of David Renton has the note, "To Ministry of Power". However, this is the article on Ministry of Power and in the article David Renton, we read, "Renton ... moved to the Home Office as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State from 1958 to 1961 ...".

I suggest therefore that this note cannot be correct. Perhaps it should read "To Home Office". Hedles (talk) 12:22, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Wrong name for the article?
This article is named "Ministry of Power" and "Ministry of Fuel and Power" redirects to it.

I think that the opposite would have been the better choice.

The article is a least as much about the Ministry of Fuel and Power as it is about the Ministry and Power, per se, both in its lead and in the fact that, as well as a list of the "Ministers of Power", it contains a section listing the "Ministers of Fuel and Power" which strictly has no place in an article on the Ministry of Power - because they predate the ministry by that name.

Since the ministry began its life as "The Ministry of Fuel and Power" and this appellation contains all the words in the later name, "The Ministry of Power", and because of the contents of the article, I would suggest that the better name for it would be "The Ministry of Fuel and Power" with a redirect to it from "Ministry of Power" instead of vice versa.

It could then begin with a more straightforward lead commencing naturally at the start of the life of the Ministry of Fuel and Power - with less 'apology' needed to explain why, in only its second sentence, the article begins to describe something other than the subject title ("The Ministry of Power (then named Ministry of Fuel and Power)..."), Thus:

"The Ministry of Fuel and Power (later, "The Ministry of Power") was a United Kingdom government ministry dealing with issues concerning energy from 1942 until 1969."

"It was created on 11 June 1942 from ...

The rest of the article would remain unchanged. Hedles (talk) 14:06, 28 April 2020 (UTC)