Talk:Ralliement créditiste

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A comment on the name: calling the federal party the "Ralliement creditiste" is an example of presentism, i.e., applying present day standards to an historical event. The English-language newspapers of the day (at least in the 1965 election) called it the "Social Credit Rally" to distringuish it from Thompson's "Social Credit Party". It would be interesting to know if Caouette's party ever published anything in English, and, if so, what name they used. The party did run candidates in Ontario and NewBrunswick, and, although there candidates were francophones running in largely francophone ridings, it would not be surprising if they used English-language ior bilingual campaign materials. Kevintoronto 18:53, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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It seems this party held six seats in the 31st Canadian parliament, elected in 1979. There is no mention in the article; could someone more familiar with the situation fill this in? Radagast 17:53, 23 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Not quite, although the confusion is understandable. "In 1971, Caouette and the Ralliement créditiste rejoined the Social Credit Party of Canada, and Caouette was elected national leader." The party that held six seats was the Social Credit Party of Canada, although that party, by 1979, had become a largely Quebec-based party, as the Ralliement créditiste had been. Ground Zero | t 18:08, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I have made the necessary changes to 31st Canadian parliament, 30th Canadian parliament and 29th Canadian parliament, which were incorrect. Thanks for catching the error. Ground Zero | t 18:18, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Split or move?
The scope of this article seems to be the history of all social credit parties in Quebec, which is a worthy subject, in my opinion. However the article title carries the name of a specific party, and many Wikilinks that seem to be referring to the specific party end up bringing you here, where information about that party is buried near the bottom. Based on the number of Wikilinks I’ve seen in the past few minutes alone, it seems that Ralliement créditiste (the party) is worthy of its own article, in addition to this more general article/list providing histories of some of Quebec’s shorter-lived or lesser known social credit parties. However this article then would then need to move to something more general/appropriate like Social credit parties in Quebec. Curious about others thoughts. Wow Mollu (talk) 17:19, 7 December 2023 (UTC)