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Urban Districts etc
Shall we cooperate on the local government bodies articles? Creating the starter articles and 'looking up the details'/where the archives are is to my taste: but will upgrade any not otherwise seen to in groups later on. If you have any particular preferences let me know (and if you wish to make use of feel free). Jackiespeel (talk) 14:27, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Brent London Borough Council elections
Hello, I noticed that that you added 2 navigation templates and a sequence to each of the Brent London Borough Council election articles. I have removed the sequences from the articles as all the information is already included in the Brent London Borough Council election template that is just below there, with the template being superior as it allows movement to any years Brent council election, not just the previous election or the one after. Most of the English council election articles are moving to having navigation templates rather than sequences.

Also I see that you added United Kingdom elections and Council elections in London templates to the articles. Per WP:BIDIRECTIONAL normally navigation templates should only be added to articles that are included in the template, so although I have not removed them at the moment, I don't think they should be there. The Council elections in London template is fine in the main Brent London Borough Council elections template as that is linked in the template, but I don't think it should be included in the individual election articles and I don't think the United Kingdom elections template should be on any of them. Davewild (talk) 18:21, 27 February 2015 (UTC)


 * OK thanks I was just trying to make sure all the London borough election pages were similarly set out and linked to one another. But if that's not the way Wikipedia election pages are normally set out I'll stop Doc77can (talk) 20:52, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
 * No problem and thanks for working on them - please don't stop working them because of this, nice work on adding all the ward results to Barnet Council election, 1998 for instance. Davewild (talk) 20:59, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you, one question I'm currently making the missing ward result maps for the 2002-2014 London elections, how do I show that they are a derivative work? Doc77can (talk) 21:29, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Well an example from my latest ward result map is here, which shows how I am doing it (note as you'll see in the edit history I originally uploaded as my work and then quickly edited to show it is a derivative as I can't figure out an easy way to upload them straight as derivatives any more). If you have not already found it, User:Nilfanion/Elections is a very helpful page when creating these ward maps, although unfortunately the derivativeFX tool no longer works - that tool used to make it very easy to upload derivative maps. Davewild (talk) 21:38, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

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Hi Doc77can! Just a quick note, the bot saw a match with apparently mirrored versions of an article, so no worry there. One thing though, for future reference, anytime you re-use content from one article in another, we just need a comment to that effect in the edit summary, which keeps the "BY" part of CC-BY-SA happy. For these two, for example, just a small edit with the summary saying "Article created with content copied from Barking and Dagenham Council election, 1998, see that page for attribution." You can remove the Coren Search Bot warning and use that summary for the 2 above articles, then a similar one for new articles on the first edit summary. Thanks for your work! Crow  Caw 20:52, 29 March 2015 (UTC)
 * OK done, thank you for the advice. Doc77can (talk) 19:26, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

 * PS - be aware that a few articles are still at incorrect titles (i.e. not incorporating the full name of the councils), so best not to create any links such as Rugby Council election, XXXX - they will all be moved to the correct title in the next few days - e.g. Rugby Borough Council election, XXXX. Have slowly been going through and doing this for the past year, and nearly there! Cheers, Number   5  7  20:52, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * PPS - when you're adding these templates, can you put them below the county ones - this is how they're normally laid out. Cheers, Number   5  7  22:10, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the barnstar and advice. Doc77can (talk) 16:58, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

NI templates
Hi Doc77can. I saw you created templates for NI local elections based on the counties. I was previously thinking of doing this, and then realised that the council boundaries are completely different to council boundaries, with some councils overlapping more than one county. What I think might be better is to have one template for each council area (there are only 11 now) and include the merged councils on those instead, otherwise you'll end up with three templates on some pages (two county ones and one UK local elections one). This is what I've started doing for Scotland (see e.g. Aberdeen elections). Thoughts?


 * I was worried about the issue with the cross-county boundaries too, but felt the six counties were still viewed as the main sub-divisions of NI, similar to the ceremonial counties of England and the persevered counties of Wales. However if you feel having a template for each council area would be be better on election pages I wouldn't object. Doc77can (talk) 19:31, 19 April 2015 (UTC)


 * I have to confess that I am rather ignorant of how the traditional six counties are viewed in NI, but based my thoughts on a brief look at the history of local government in the province - unlike England, I'm not sure they have used counties as local government units - happy to be proved wrong though! Number   5  7  12:03, 20 April 2015 (UTC)


 * No your right, the six counties haven't had any administrative function since the passing Local Government (Boundaries) Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 and Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972. But I was worried since namings and boundaries can stir up a lot of feeling in NI topics, and I wanted to avoid getting into an edit war over this - I know that the Derry/Londonderry issue can be a hot topic. Doc77can (talk) 12:23, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

Well done for creating all the annual election templates, but I think you missed off Monmouthshire County Council! Number  5  7  22:15, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Cheers for pointing it out I completely missed it, fixed now. Doc77can (talk) 11:47, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

London Borough Council byelections 1964-68
I notice you've been maintaining the articles about local elections in the London Boroughs. I'm afraid the lack of mention of byelections in 1964-68 in the GLC Intelligence Department's 'London Borough Council Election Results, 1968' doesn't indicate that there were none, because they were never recording them at the time. There were in fact a total of 237 seats filled in byelections in this term, and each borough had at least one (Lambeth had only one, Hackney had 17). I have found the results of all but one.

I should also point out that the London Borough Councils had voting Aldermen until 1978 which sometimes made a difference to council control. I'm happy to send you the list of them. Sam Blacketer (talk) 17:20, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you, they're only stubs at the moment, I just wanted to fill in the gaps. Doc77can (talk) 15:30, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

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 * OK sorry, will fix it Doc77can (talk) 18:59, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I've done a few already. DuncanHill (talk) 19:04, 5 May 2016 (UTC)

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