Talk:Bromsgrove (UK Parliament constituency)

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Next election[edit]

An unlogged in user made a large number of edits, indicating:

That some one had been selected as an independent. Since 'Independent' is not a party, it cannot have an official candidate. Accordingly there can be no prospective independent candidate until the election has been called and the nomination papers submitted.
That a conservative candidate had been selected to replace Julie Kirkbride (whose resignation is now final). This is premature and must be the result of WP:OR, i.e. invention. The selection process has not even begun, or hardly so. Reference for this: circular to local party members, as to the procedure intended to be followed. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:12, 19 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with your reversion. Any article that presents General Dannatt as a conservative party candidate will need very reliable sourcing. Road Wizard (talk) 16:32, 19 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

We have had edit warring over the content of the box (including my suffering an annoying edit conflict that lost part of my work). I have restored the Lib-Dem and Green candidates (recently added and then removed). In one case, the name is credible; in the other, the editor is likely to be well-informed. I presume that the editor who reinstate the name of the Labour candidate knows. However for reasons given above, I will continue to delete any alleged independent candidiate, unless (possibly) a reliable source is cited. Peterkingiron (talk) 21:10, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If you are referring to the activities in the last 24 hours I don't think you can call it edit warring. It appears to involve vandalism of the different candidate's records with some edits possibly in breach of the WP:BLP policy. While I restored the article to what appeared to be the last stable version I was acutely aware that none of the prospective candidates are sourced.

I am tempted to pull the whole prospective candidate table from the article until a source is provided. Road Wizard (talk) 21:15, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think that it is now as it should be. If the "independents" reappear, I suggest they be tagged with {{fact}}. I fear this is a problem that will arise with many constituencies until the election is formally called and candidate lists can be sourced from an website website or newspapers. Peterkingiron (talk) 22:16, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have added a source for two of the candidates and set {{fact}} for the others. Whether or not they are independents we need sources for verification and to help identify further vandal edits. Road Wizard (talk) 22:59, 22 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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