Talk:Rotherham (UK Parliament constituency)

Defection
MacShane has defected and therefore references to independent articles on the page should be left, here is the proof

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_Members_of_Parliament_who_crossed_the_floor#2010-2015_Parliament —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lifeontheedge (talk • contribs) 17:03, 1 November 2010 (UTC)


 * You are confusing having the whip removed, as MacShane has, with crossing the floor.

Rsloch (talk) 14:09, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

Graph
The useful graph on this page shows the relative votes of the major parties over time, and also the total votes for other parties. An editor has removed it on the grounds that the "others" are not a party. I do not understand this objection; it is a common and widely understood convention to group "others" together, and is particularly useful on a graph, where it would not be possible to illustrate in an intelligible way the vote share of every other party and independent. Warofdreams talk 12:45, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
 * The graph says 'Other' not 'Others'. 'Other' implies a single party which makes the graph misleading and hence why I removed it.

Rsloch (talk) 16:04, 8 August 2011 (UTC)


 * 'Other' is a perfectly normal way to group small parties. See, for example, the BBC election calculator here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/8609989.stm —Jeremy (talk) 16:52, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
 * (after ec) I agree that the plural would be more correct, but as you're the first person to even spot this in almost six years since the original creation of these graphs, I don't agree that it is misleading. The value of the graph far outweights the small chance that somebody might find the wording slightly confusing. Warofdreams talk 16:55, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Probably I'm being too picky then Rsloch (talk) 14:07, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

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