Talk:2020 New Brunswick general election

Photo

Can someone with a good program crop the photo of Kris Austin for infobox use? --User19004 (talk) 12:40, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

List of candidates

Could somebody please adapt the candidate tables from the 2018 election?

Somebody with a script can do it in a fraction of the time it would take me to do it by hand. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 19:33, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

On the Inclusion of Potential Candidates

What's the best approach here? I just undid two edits which removed potential candidates with no reason given, but there are quite a few of these where the only source is a social media post by the potential nominee. My hunch is that we should only include candidates who have been nominated or otherwise announced by the party (ie. Kevin Vickers, who leads the party and has announced his candidacy in Miramichi, but has not formally received the nomination according to ElectionsNB). Anyone willing to chime in based on how other Wikipedia election pages are managed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rowsswag (talk • contribs) 14:42, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

I contributed to candidate entries on the last two federal elections and the last provincial one.

With the last federal election a social-media announcement by the contestant was sufficient so long as there was a citation; easily searchable social media like Facebook and Twitter was preferable to sites like Instagram. Independents were treated as candidates when they made their announcements. Party candidate pages took precedence over social media, and Elections Canada/NB registration was took precedence over everything else. Some things to note:

• Italics have been used for nomination contestants for several elections now, that's why it's in the legend before the candidate tables.
• Some of the parties are very slow getting a candidate page up.
• Somebody who's won the local nomination but not yet announced by the party should be listed as candidate so long as there's a source.
• Citations are a must. Last provincial election it became necessary to protect the page because somebody kept putting in uncited candidates who could not be found anywhere else, not even on social media.

It's okay to note nomination meetings but use small text but please put a linebreak if appropriate Take down the nomination text as soon as there's something confirming the nomination took place. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 21:51, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

I know this account is new, but I was a Wiki editor in the early years, did some work on the federal table last year anonymously, and am trying to go by the same procedure there. Once all of these are confirmed by the party and/or ENB, the citations will be swapped out. I also think the sudden timing of the election call will be an issue this time. The PCs don't have a candidate page at all and the Liberal one hasn't been updated in over a week. Some of these announcements have also been confirmed by the local newspapers (Liberals in Moncton South and NW for instance), but I prefer to link sources that aren't behind the paywall. ElectionatlasCA (talk) 00:17, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Fairness of Denoting Cabinet Ministers

Is it fair to bold font all the folks that were Cabinet Ministers when the legislature ended? The table does not show Liberals who used to be in Cabinet. It strikes me as a bit unfair to put so many PC names in bold since we are in an election now. The info isn't really relevant. Showing who is incumbent should be enough. The bolding should not be given to any. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SometimesIStink (talk • contribs) 23:11, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

I should say, maybe bold the party leaders, but not Cabinet. That would be fair. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SometimesIStink (talk • contribs) 23:13, 30 August 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia standard practice is to bold cabinet ministers and party leaders. This is just a case of an unusual cabinet:MLA ratio making things look strange. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 02:49, 31 August 2020 (UTC)