Talk:Wessex Regionalists

Minor political party
I removed the word "minor" from the first sentence, as the Electoral Commission defines a minor political party as one which only contests local elections. As the WRs contest parliamentary elections, they do not fit this definition, so I felt the description was potentially misleading. --82.33.80.82 (talk) 19:30, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Fair point. But in common parlance it is minor, so any suggestions? Sources? Doug Weller (talk) 21:50, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Surprisingly I couldn't easily come up with a clear-cut source, except this rather oblique reference in The Guardian. But doesn't it come within the sky is blue etc? A statement of the obvious? And perhaps include a footnote that it doesn't technically fulfil the EC's definition. DeCausa (talk) 23:38, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
 * This is from the Electoral Commission's own website: http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/electoral_commission_pdf_file/0006/13488/form-rp1m.pdf Maybe use "small" as an alternative? I looked on thesaurus.com, but all the other synonyms for "minor" that I found were pejoratives such as "trivial" or "insignificant".--Nick xylas (talk) 19:18, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Wessex Regionalists 2.gif
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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:14, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I have changed the logo to a colour version which was e-mailed to me by David Robins, the party secretary, for the express purpose of uploading to Wikipedia.--Nick xylas (talk) 10:02, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
 * You don't need permission to use a logo on Wikipedia. You do however need to put a source, a licence, and if appropriate a fair use rationale. Please look at the b&w logo for an idea of how this is done. If you don't do it then the colour logo will be automatically deleted. --Bob Re-born (talk) 10:34, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I have forwarded the e-mail from the creator of the file to permissions. If this is not enough, I will get him to fill in a permissions letter.16:59, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Again, you don't need permission. If that is the logo then it can be used without permission under a fair use claim. --Bob Re-born (talk) 17:10, 24 February 2012 (UTC)

1979 General Election
Does anybody have any idea why the party got such a high vote in Westbury in 1979? It doesn't match with other constituency results that year or in other years in the same constituency. Could the candidate have profited by his surname in some way? BTLizard (talk) 12:44, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Tom Thatcher was a local farmer, active in many organisations in the constituency and hence with a large personal following. It's impossible to say how much of his vote reflects this and how much was confusion with Mrs T. No doubt both contributed. David Robins (talk) 16:38, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Ethnoterritorial
An accusation that the Wessex Regionalists are an "ethnoterritorial" party has been on this page for a while. The accusation appears to have no basis in the party's actual policies, but my edits pointing to their own stated positions keep getting reverted on the basis of WP:MANDY. This seems to me to place an undue burden of proof on the victims of malicious allegations, rather than on those making them. I looked at WP:SELFSOURCE, as recommended, and it's my opinion that this fits the 5 criteria (I would think that a political party's own published words are the best way of determining what their actual policies are), but other editors evidently disagree. If I think that this allegation is inaccurate, how do I say so without my edits getting deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nick xylas (talk • contribs) 14:45, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is based on coverage by reliable sources. That sentence is from a paper amongst a small amount of academic coverage of the party. Academic sources are usually smongst the best sources available. If there were more coverage of the party in reliable sources, such as academic papers, books, and quality newspapers, then the article could describe the party better. Ralbegen (talk) 16:47, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
 * OK, but the page you link to says that self-published sources can be used provided that they are not the main source of information and that the information provided is not unduly self-serving. To say that a passing mention in an academic paper is a more reliable source of information about a political party's policies than that party's own manifesto seems to be taking an understandable preference for third-party sources to ridiculous extremes. Nick xylas (talk) 17:05, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
 * WP:SELFSOURCE, the section you're referring to, says that primary sourced material about the subject should be used de minimis. WP:PSTS, which is policy, tells us that Secondary or tertiary sources are needed to establish the topic's notability and to avoid novel interpretations of primary sources. All analyses and interpretive or synthetic claims about primary sources must be referenced to a secondary or tertiary source, and must not be an original analysis of the primary-source material by Wikipedia editors. So a reference to the Wessex Regionalists' manifesto would be suitable to supplement material covered by a reliable source. If a book, scholarly paper or news article in a quality publication wrote that the Lorem Ipsum Party want to scrap stamp duty and replace it with a transaction tax, then an additional reference to the Lorem Ipsum party's manifesto would be appropriate to, say, support inclusion of material about the rate or scope of that tax, like "the Lorem Ipsum Party said they would replace stamp duty with a 5% transaction tax" (followed by references to the secondary source and the primary source). Due weight is established for including material about the Lorem Ipsum Party's stance on stamp duty, and the supplemental use of a primary source can fill in an uncontroversial detail that could be useful to the reader in better understanding the material. So there are appropriate ways to use primary sources about a subject. For this article, the sentence Its platform is based on the creation of a devolved assembly for the region it defines as Wessex is supported by a secondary source in The Guardian. How the party defines Wessex is linked to a publication from the Wessex Regionalists, which fills in that detail. That's a suitable place for self-sourcing, maybe the only one for an article of this length. But looking at a party's manifesto and including material which isn't closely grounded in secondary source material isn't appropriate. That would constitute original research if an editor selected policies to include or an indiscriminate collection of information and promotional if an editor included the whole policy platform.
 * I hope that helps! The party hasn't received a great deal of reliable source coverage, especially in recent years. It'd be easier to write a fuller article if there were more appropriate sources available. Ralbegen (talk) 18:40, 29 April 2021 (UTC)