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Gibraltar by-election, 2013

 * ... that half of the candidates contesting the 2013 parliamentary by-election are children of former Gibraltarian political figures?
 * Reviewed: Tang campaigns against Karasahr

Created by Gibmetal77 (talk). Self nominated at 09:04, 2 July 2013 (UTC).
 * Would be nice to have this appear on 4 July, the day of the election. --Gibmetal 77 talk 2 me 22:46, 2 July 2013 (UTC)


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 * I don't see the hook mentioned in the article. CaseyPenk (talk) 17:36, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
 * It states that Marlene Hassan Nahon is the daughter of former Chief Minister of Gibraltar Sir Joshua Hassan and that Albert Isola is the son of former Leader of the Opposition Peter Isola. --Gibmetal 77 talk 2 me 21:12, 3 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Symbol question.svg Looks like we are having lots of reviewers here. New enough, long enough. From my perspective, it's referenced to DYK requirements (the reviewer below doesn't think so, though). ALT1 is better. The article needs a bit of a tidy-up, though. Results in the infobox are incorrect, the winner needs to be added / shown, and 'Independent' needs to be dabbed. With regards to the election results table, I would regard it as good practice to use the same number of decimal points for all results. Whilst it's reported as per the source, it's a simple calculation and the rules are that they don't need to be sourced, but can be done by an editor (i.e. show 7.00% and 3.20%). One more query - is the independent really notable? If yes, then the redlink is ok. But note that just because he was a candidate in an election, he's not automatically notable (far from it).  Schwede 66  21:48, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your review. I've updated the article following the result of the by-election and should have addressed all of the above. I believe the independent candidate is indeed notable. He has an interesting history as a political activist and was former president of the Gibraltar United Nations Association. I'm digging out some info on him for a separate article. --Gibmetal 77 talk 2 me 18:20, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg I've added Independent (politician) to the infobox. It's good to go now. There's nothing wrong with the redlink; I was just asking.  Schwede 66  18:51, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for your review! --Gibmetal 77 talk 2 me 01:25, 8 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Symbol possible vote.svg No COI-related issues. Will continue reviewing in a giffy... The first paragraph's second sentence in ″Background″ section is unreferenced. Please provide a reliable source for it. I'd tend to change the hook, as it looks like half of the candidates means a lot of people, when they were actually two out of four. Furthermore, it should be changed to past tense. I'm providing an alt below.--Jetstreamer Talk 21:36, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
 * ALT1: ... that two of four of the candidates contesting the 2013 by-election to the Gibraltar Parliament were children of former Gibraltarian political figures?--Jetstreamer Talk 21:36, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
 * ALT1: ... that two of four of the candidates contesting the 2013 by-election to the Gibraltar Parliament were children of former Gibraltarian political figures?--Jetstreamer Talk 21:36, 5 July 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your review. I've updated the article. --Gibmetal 77 talk 2 me 18:20, 7 July 2013 (UTC)


 * The start of ALT1 is a bit convoluted; how about the following:
 * ALT1a: ... that two of the four candidates contesting the 2013 by-election to the Gibraltar Parliament were children of former Gibraltarian political leaders?
 * I also changed the final word from "figures" to "leaders", since both Hassan and Isola were leaders (as is clear in the article), and at one point in a coalition government in the 1960s were Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister respectively (not in the article, but not needed). —BlueMoonset (talk) 04:13, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you, I think this ALT1a reads best. --Gibmetal 77 talk 2 me 18:20, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Great, Gibmetal 77. I also see that you added a reference to the sentence I pointed at above. Good to go.--Jetstreamer Talk 21:29, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for your review! --Gibmetal 77 talk 2 me 01:25, 8 July 2013 (UTC)