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This is not a suggestion for any change, rather I'm just pointing out the link in the info box - Agrarianism - which is defined as: "a social and political philosophy which stresses the viewpoint that the cultivation of plants, or farming leads to a fuller and happier life". Nothing wrong with this of course, and I make no comment on the ideology itself (which probably holds true for many millions of people) and I know next to nothing about political philosophy so can't comment on whether this is a fair explanation of agrarianism. Just seemed quaint and even amusing - especially in the context of 21st century in WA where an 'agrarian' party looks like holding the balance of power. GlenDillon 10:14, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
A couple of points here:
1). There are contradicting sources online as to whether the two parties reunified in 1984 or 1985 (and a few comments suggesting that the National County Party merged into the Liberals although this seems to have just been the sitting MLAs) - which is correct?
2). There's confusion over just what article should be linked to in this period. This article is treating the National County Party as the continuity and the National Party as a breakaway split, but the intro to Hendy Cowan states "including 23 years as leader of the National Party in Western Australia between 1979 and 2001", which was true from his point of view but not the way things are laid out here. The state election articles are linking the National Country Party to here and not linking the National Party at all but instead putting a footnote about split. Meanwhile Electoral results for the Division of O'Connor, Candidates of the Australian federal election, 1980 and Candidates of the Australian federal election, 1983 are all linking the National Country Party to the federal party article (and for that matter Nationals in other states are linked there) and the National Party to this article.
Would it be easiest to create a separate article for the National Party produced by the 1978 split, covering the 1978-1984/5 period? The current set-up isn't clear and links from the federal articles don't really explain what was going on. Timrollpickering ( talk) 17:39, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
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This is not a suggestion for any change, rather I'm just pointing out the link in the info box - Agrarianism - which is defined as: "a social and political philosophy which stresses the viewpoint that the cultivation of plants, or farming leads to a fuller and happier life". Nothing wrong with this of course, and I make no comment on the ideology itself (which probably holds true for many millions of people) and I know next to nothing about political philosophy so can't comment on whether this is a fair explanation of agrarianism. Just seemed quaint and even amusing - especially in the context of 21st century in WA where an 'agrarian' party looks like holding the balance of power. GlenDillon 10:14, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
A couple of points here:
1). There are contradicting sources online as to whether the two parties reunified in 1984 or 1985 (and a few comments suggesting that the National County Party merged into the Liberals although this seems to have just been the sitting MLAs) - which is correct?
2). There's confusion over just what article should be linked to in this period. This article is treating the National County Party as the continuity and the National Party as a breakaway split, but the intro to Hendy Cowan states "including 23 years as leader of the National Party in Western Australia between 1979 and 2001", which was true from his point of view but not the way things are laid out here. The state election articles are linking the National Country Party to here and not linking the National Party at all but instead putting a footnote about split. Meanwhile Electoral results for the Division of O'Connor, Candidates of the Australian federal election, 1980 and Candidates of the Australian federal election, 1983 are all linking the National Country Party to the federal party article (and for that matter Nationals in other states are linked there) and the National Party to this article.
Would it be easiest to create a separate article for the National Party produced by the 1978 split, covering the 1978-1984/5 period? The current set-up isn't clear and links from the federal articles don't really explain what was going on. Timrollpickering ( talk) 17:39, 30 August 2010 (UTC)