This page is a guideline of how the Politics of the United Kingdom WikiProject should handle articles related to constituencies or electoral wards within the United Kingdom.
All constituency articles should be tagged with the ((WP UK Politics)) banner and assessed on their quality and importance to the project.
Quality
Articles should be judged on the standard quality scale set out by the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team, which is replicated on this project's Assessment page.
Importance
The importance assessment is a judgement by each individual WikiProject on what they consider to be their priority articles. In theory the Top importance articles should be the first to reach a level of quality sufficient to be included in Version 1.0 (or a subsequent version) while Low importance articles will usually reach the same level of quality at a later stage.
While the work of maintaining constituency articles is very important to the WikiProject, the relative importance of a single constituency article is low. For example, as there are 650 UK Parliamentary constituencies the importance of just 1 of those constituencies is fairly minor.
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All constituencies and wards
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Exceptions
There are to be no exceptions to the importance criteria. Possible arguments for higher importance are that the constituency was represented by an important individual (perhaps a Prime Minister) or that an important by-election was held there. However, it is the articles for the important individual and the important by-election that should be given higher importance, not the constituency.
- UK Parliament constituency articles should follow the style guidelines produced by WikiProject UK Parliament constituencies.
- Other constituencies in the United Kingdom (such as Scottish Parliament constituencies) should follow the style guidelines set out above though some adaptation may be necessary to compensate for discrepancies in the electoral systems (such as alternative templates or categories). - Note: it may be useful to develop guidelines for the devolved legislatures based on the original guidelines.
- All constituency articles are currently considered notable
- The notability of electoral wards needs to be clarified by the WikiProject
Some useful sources for constituency articles are:
Do you know any other sources for Political Party articles? If so, please list them here.
- All Scottish Parliament constituency and electoral region articles have now been assessed as C-class on the quality scale. The articles contain a good balance of information but are severely lacking in references.
- All Welsh Assembly constituency and electoral region articles have now been assessed. While there are some C-class articles, a large proportion are Start-class and a few are barely more than stubs. References are often non-existent and there are large gaps in the election results provided.
- Coverage of electoral wards appears to be patchy. Category:Wards of the United Kingdom contains links to a large number of ward articles, but these are a bare fraction of the total wards in the UK. How the situation is handled in areas not covered by ward articles still needs investigation. Once more detailed view has been established the WikiProject will need to agree a consistent method of handling electoral wards (perhaps with input from other interested projects).
- Tag constituency articles with the ((WP UK Politics)) banner and assess them based on the above criteria
- Investigate the current status of electoral wards on Wikipedia. Do they have their own articles or are they merged with council articles? (partially answered with the discovery of Category:Wards of the United Kingdom)
- Improve and reference existing articles