Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organise information in articles related to UK Parliament constituencies. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the
talk page and see the to-do list there.
Darren Jolley Have already done much work on results since 1950. I live in Lancashire (Chorley) so have done work on constituencies in the North West.
Literal Democrat I have been adding results for all elections since 1931 for the entire United Kingdom. Beginning to list Prospective Parliamentary candidates for the 2015 general election in many constituencies.
Laurel Bush: Working mostly on constituency boundary definitions and how these have changed with time, especially in Scotland, which leads me into working on articles about local administration/government and statistical areas (counties, boroughs (burghs in Scotland), modern council areas in Scotland (where counties and burghs were abolished in 1975), etc), so that these will correspond adequately with articles about constituencies. Seeing a need for a 'politics of the United Kingdom' project to co-ordinate this kind of work.
Mackensen working to add MP succession boxes to politicians
Fys - I have the complete works of
F. W. S. Craig and the History of Parliament Trust plus the Boundary Commission reports. I do respond to requests (though due to pressure of work may take a few days)
Jammydodger - Working mostly around Essex and Epping Forest inparticular, but also helping out with otehr areas.
Al - Noticed that there isn't much for the West Midlands; might as well help out there
JJE - Doing a bit of work on adding old election results. Keyly working on Orpington, where I'm gradually working through old election results.
Nick C - Working mainly on council elections, but willing to help on anything. (Since 6th May 2006)
Gary J - I have been doing work on various articles, particularly on historic Scottish and Irish constituencies.
Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesleytalkcontrib - Edited a few constituency articles; re-organised categories; probably be able to help some more if there are areas that need work.
Rbreen - adding material to historic constituencies when I have some time.
Lethaniol - am interested in helping out with the historic constituency articles - if anyone has a decent website to help get this info off please leave on my talk page.
Harry Hayfieldtalkcontrib - Have election information taken from BBC Parliament replays for the 1955, 1964, 1966, 1970, Feb 1974, Oct 1974, 1979, 1983, 1987, 1997 and 2005 general elections.
BrownHairedGirl working mostly on historic constituencies, but also on completing MPs lists and ensuring consistency of naming, disambiguation etc.
Mikebloke Mostly punctuation, number, links and table fixes
Peterkingiron (
talk) 17:51, 9 August 2008 (UTC) -- I have already completed (or expanded) several MP lists for 1660-1832 and have been creating articles for some of them, including providing succession boxes.reply
Mark.s.shaw - Initially concentrating on results for
Pudsey parliamentary constituency, then other surounding constituencies.
Cooltrainer Hugh - Normally work on the safer Tory seats, but anything really.
WFCforLife - Initially concentrating on Hertfordshire.
95jb14 - Working on updating things for 2010 General Election.
07bargem (
talk) 12:38, 25 May 2010 (UTC) - Working on updating an dfilling in the tables ofr all list of parliamentray constituencies in individual counties. If you need a pointer look at
List of Parliamentary constituencies in Warwickshire. Any help would be much appreciated and feel free to contact me if you are interested.reply
Crooked Cottage Attempting to standardise the articles to a common format. Adding in 1992 results in the first place, then filling in any missing results.
Andrewmc123 - Mainly work on Scottish constituencies of the UK (and Scottish) Parliament
EdwardRussell - Key interest in historical election results, but will work on whatever takes my fancy at the time!
Adam37 - Relegation to footnotes for clearly obiter and obscure statements. Tired into a
gnome after updating the 2010 General Election results and adding the full lists of wards from the
Fifth Review. Subtle edits so as to ensure we see a
NPOV where bias detected. Have added .svg maps, advised on WP:POLICY and neatened countless tables.
The
style guide shows you how the article should look.
Check that the constituency contains:
The infobox (as shown in the style guide)
2005 election results
Other election results (if applicable). Ideally the constituency should have all the elections which have taken place there! Use the resources section of the main project page to help with this.
Complete list of MPs
The boundaries section should include what area the constituency covers, as well as its main towns.
Make sure any MP articles link to the constituency, and that the list of MPs links both to the MP and the constituency (
MPs elected in the UK general election, 1979 for example)
Please can some people help with updating the lists of Parliamentary Constituencies in a certain country (eg. Essex) so that they contain the latest info as of May 2010. If you need any help check out
List of Parliamentary constituencies in Warwickshire or leave a message on 07bargem's
talk page.
Templates
Templates have been developed due to the recurrent use of certain styles of formatting in this project.
Template:election box – used for all election results – contains detailed instructions for templates as well as a list of parties that enable the correct colour to be shown.
2001 results - constituency results from wikisource.
http://www.election.demon.co.uk/ for election results dating back to 1983 (including by-elections). Also has the creation dates for pre-1832 constituencies.
http://www.election-maps.co.uk if you want to know the boundaries of a constituency or the places in it (note: under crown copyright so you can't use the map itself)
Confirmed subscribers include - East Sussex Libraries and Cambridgshire Libraries.
F. W. S. Craig's books, available at most major libraries in the UK, containing all British election results since 1832 and Northern Irish results since 1922.
Brian Walker's Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland 1801-1922. The 1918 results are available from
ark.ac.uk
Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organise information in articles related to UK Parliament constituencies. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the
talk page and see the to-do list there.
Darren Jolley Have already done much work on results since 1950. I live in Lancashire (Chorley) so have done work on constituencies in the North West.
Literal Democrat I have been adding results for all elections since 1931 for the entire United Kingdom. Beginning to list Prospective Parliamentary candidates for the 2015 general election in many constituencies.
Laurel Bush: Working mostly on constituency boundary definitions and how these have changed with time, especially in Scotland, which leads me into working on articles about local administration/government and statistical areas (counties, boroughs (burghs in Scotland), modern council areas in Scotland (where counties and burghs were abolished in 1975), etc), so that these will correspond adequately with articles about constituencies. Seeing a need for a 'politics of the United Kingdom' project to co-ordinate this kind of work.
Mackensen working to add MP succession boxes to politicians
Fys - I have the complete works of
F. W. S. Craig and the History of Parliament Trust plus the Boundary Commission reports. I do respond to requests (though due to pressure of work may take a few days)
Jammydodger - Working mostly around Essex and Epping Forest inparticular, but also helping out with otehr areas.
Al - Noticed that there isn't much for the West Midlands; might as well help out there
JJE - Doing a bit of work on adding old election results. Keyly working on Orpington, where I'm gradually working through old election results.
Nick C - Working mainly on council elections, but willing to help on anything. (Since 6th May 2006)
Gary J - I have been doing work on various articles, particularly on historic Scottish and Irish constituencies.
Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesleytalkcontrib - Edited a few constituency articles; re-organised categories; probably be able to help some more if there are areas that need work.
Rbreen - adding material to historic constituencies when I have some time.
Lethaniol - am interested in helping out with the historic constituency articles - if anyone has a decent website to help get this info off please leave on my talk page.
Harry Hayfieldtalkcontrib - Have election information taken from BBC Parliament replays for the 1955, 1964, 1966, 1970, Feb 1974, Oct 1974, 1979, 1983, 1987, 1997 and 2005 general elections.
BrownHairedGirl working mostly on historic constituencies, but also on completing MPs lists and ensuring consistency of naming, disambiguation etc.
Mikebloke Mostly punctuation, number, links and table fixes
Peterkingiron (
talk) 17:51, 9 August 2008 (UTC) -- I have already completed (or expanded) several MP lists for 1660-1832 and have been creating articles for some of them, including providing succession boxes.reply
Mark.s.shaw - Initially concentrating on results for
Pudsey parliamentary constituency, then other surounding constituencies.
Cooltrainer Hugh - Normally work on the safer Tory seats, but anything really.
WFCforLife - Initially concentrating on Hertfordshire.
95jb14 - Working on updating things for 2010 General Election.
07bargem (
talk) 12:38, 25 May 2010 (UTC) - Working on updating an dfilling in the tables ofr all list of parliamentray constituencies in individual counties. If you need a pointer look at
List of Parliamentary constituencies in Warwickshire. Any help would be much appreciated and feel free to contact me if you are interested.reply
Crooked Cottage Attempting to standardise the articles to a common format. Adding in 1992 results in the first place, then filling in any missing results.
Andrewmc123 - Mainly work on Scottish constituencies of the UK (and Scottish) Parliament
EdwardRussell - Key interest in historical election results, but will work on whatever takes my fancy at the time!
Adam37 - Relegation to footnotes for clearly obiter and obscure statements. Tired into a
gnome after updating the 2010 General Election results and adding the full lists of wards from the
Fifth Review. Subtle edits so as to ensure we see a
NPOV where bias detected. Have added .svg maps, advised on WP:POLICY and neatened countless tables.
The
style guide shows you how the article should look.
Check that the constituency contains:
The infobox (as shown in the style guide)
2005 election results
Other election results (if applicable). Ideally the constituency should have all the elections which have taken place there! Use the resources section of the main project page to help with this.
Complete list of MPs
The boundaries section should include what area the constituency covers, as well as its main towns.
Make sure any MP articles link to the constituency, and that the list of MPs links both to the MP and the constituency (
MPs elected in the UK general election, 1979 for example)
Please can some people help with updating the lists of Parliamentary Constituencies in a certain country (eg. Essex) so that they contain the latest info as of May 2010. If you need any help check out
List of Parliamentary constituencies in Warwickshire or leave a message on 07bargem's
talk page.
Templates
Templates have been developed due to the recurrent use of certain styles of formatting in this project.
Template:election box – used for all election results – contains detailed instructions for templates as well as a list of parties that enable the correct colour to be shown.
2001 results - constituency results from wikisource.
http://www.election.demon.co.uk/ for election results dating back to 1983 (including by-elections). Also has the creation dates for pre-1832 constituencies.
http://www.election-maps.co.uk if you want to know the boundaries of a constituency or the places in it (note: under crown copyright so you can't use the map itself)
Confirmed subscribers include - East Sussex Libraries and Cambridgshire Libraries.
F. W. S. Craig's books, available at most major libraries in the UK, containing all British election results since 1832 and Northern Irish results since 1922.
Brian Walker's Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland 1801-1922. The 1918 results are available from
ark.ac.uk