Talk:2017 British Columbia general election/Archive 1

Archive 1

Party Leaders

I have noticed that some users are "in charge" of the 41st British Columbia general election Page. They are always undoing edits. Talking about future? Go to 42nd Canadian federal election, and look at it carefully. I am not rude enough to call people a hypocrite, though I can say that I am actually making a point. In future times, may people not undo useful edits, and also in future times, please not consider yourselves in charge of the page. It is really annoying when all my edits are undone.--99.242.64.69 (talk) 12:14, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Please read Wikipedia's policy on information about future events. Dix must still undergo a leadership review, and Stark has not discussed her plans for the next provincial election. It is still too early to say who will be the leaders of the major parties going into the next election, and it is Wikipedia policy to not extrapolate from the current state of the world. Thanks, 117Avenue (talk) 03:11, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

So we should remove all the leaders from the infoboxes for all the other Canadian province elections, or for all parliamentary election infoboxes? This defence of yours violates the widely accepted standard of keeping leaders of parties. It is within reasonable limits to say that the leaders are likely to stay there long enough for the next election. Byzantium Purple (talk) 21:17, 6 September 2013 (UTC)

I don't understand how you can say "that the leaders are likely to stay there long enough for the next election." The fact is leaders resign, in fact, since my last comment here, Stark has announced she will resign. 117Avenue (talk) 05:29, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Better Picture for Andrew Weaver?

I was just browsing this article and I noticed that the picture for the Green Party leader is very blurry. When I went to google him I found way better pictures.

Unfortunately I don't know how to put photos into a wikipedia article. Is it possible for someone else to do it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.68.186.108 (talk) 04:39, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

Those pictures we do not have the rights to use, and unfortunately Mr. Weaver doesn't have a Flickr we can take from as we have with Clark and Horgan. Until then it will have to do. Jebussez (talk) 10:59, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

Conservative leadership & infobox status

The BC Conservatives are currently leaderless and in turmoil, and while I've removed Brooks from the infobox I was wondering whether the party should even be included there. They are a significant minor party, however they have no seats, no leader, and as of right now, no prospects. The only thing going for them is their polling, but that is currently out of date. Are there any opinions or precedents for removing a party from the infobox?

Jebussez (talk) 07:50, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Not currently having a leader and subjectively being in turmoil should not be a determining factor. Being a registered provincial party carries more weight. So too does the most recent opinion poll support in the mid-teens which seems to counter the "no prospects" point of view. However, their website does not indicate that they have any candidates in place for an election probably only 6 months away. I think removing them from the infobox seems right, until we get a clearer picture of the nature of their campaign. Graemp (talk) 07:25, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Fair and done. I'll continue to monitor their activity and come back to this when they have something going on. Jebussez (talk) 12:10, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

I've removed them from the polling since they have no leader, 10 candidates, and pollsters have stopped asking. Mmulroney (talk) 17:19, 1 May 2017 (UTC)