Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/June and July 2023 Conservative Party by-elections


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. ✗ plicit  14:13, 26 June 2023 (UTC)

2023 United Kingdom Conservative Party by-elections

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Duplication of material already contained in individual by-election articles:


 * 2023 Uxbridge and South Ruislip by-election


 * 2023 Selby and Ainsty by-election


 * 2023 Mid Bedfordshire by-election


 * 2023 Somerton and Frome by-election


 * Additionally, information around the cause of the elections is also covered at Commons Privileges Committee investigation into Boris Johnson

Unclear what purpose or unique information this combined article provides separate to the individual articles. Additionally, the titling of the article is wrong as none of the elections take place in June. — Czello (music) 09:42, 19 June 2023 (UTC)

Note: since starting this AfD the article has been moved to 2023 United Kingdom by-elections. I don't think this should alter the argument I make above as it's still a duplication of information and we don't have similar articles for other years (other than the oddity Andrew Gray references below). — Czello (music) 16:56, 19 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Politics and United Kingdom. — Czello (music) 09:42, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete There are some overlapping issues around the Mid Beds and Selby by-elections (both MPs resigned because they didn't get peerages in Johnson's honours list), and a bit of overlap with the Uxbridge by-election (which is from Johnson resigning), but the Somerton by-election is unrelated, just coincident in timing. I think the overlap in issues can be dealt with fine within the individual by-election articles. The Mid Beds and the Selby articles do have a bit of text that repeats, but that's not a problem. Thus, there is no need for a separate article. Bondegezou (talk) 10:13, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete. These things are not typically grouped together and any information in this article will likely just duplicate the four individual articles. --Coemgenus (talk) 12:54, 19 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Delete: Reduplication of article as per others. Also not standard practice so far. — Thunderstorm008 (talk &middot; contributions) 15:46, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Agree that delete is more appropriate - I think the contextual background can stay in the investigation page, and we can link back to it as appropriate. We do have one article covering a group of closely related by-elections - 1986 Northern Ireland by-elections - but in that case all fifteen were on the same day, and were deliberately set up to be an attempt at a de-facto referendum on a specific question. This doesn't really seem to be a comparable situation. Andrew Gray (talk) 16:40, 19 June 2023 (UTC)


 * This article has already been moved several times which will make closing this discussion a bit more complicated. Liz Read! Talk! 03:19, 20 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Delete or Move - I don't think it's necessarily a bad idea to create an article about the by-elections of UK in 2023, as we already have 3 confirmed, and are likely to see one in Mid Bedfordshire and Rutherglen and Hamilton West . But I don't think it's warranted to have one like this, and would therefore support a deletion or move. Thomediter (talk) 23:19, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete - Covered by individual articles. Also it is not particularly notable historically for multiple by-elections to be held on the same day, let alone within a short time of each other. Dunarc (talk) 22:51, 22 June 2023 (UTC)


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