Talk:2024 British Columbia general election

The BC Conservatives now have a seat, should we add them to the infobox?

John Rustad has crossed the floor to sit as a BC Conservative.[1] In the past we have included parties in the infobox if they have a seat in the legislature/parliament. Recent examples are the federal Greens (2011, 2015, and 2021) and People's Party (2019). We also included New Blue and Ontario Party in the infobox for the 2022 Ontario general election article prior to the election (though they were subsiquently removed when they failed to win a seat or obtain 5% of the vote in the election). I have WP:Boldly added the Conservatives to the infobox. Please WP:BRD as appropriate. If you revert, I would ask you to comment out the Conservative infobox fields instead of removing them entirely, while we discuss. Thanks.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 23:47, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

Main article picture

Kevin Falcon's picture leads the article, and he is the opposition leader today. David Eby is the Premiere of BC, and his picture should be at the top of the page. 72.74.55.241 (talk) 18:55, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

Eby's picture is first, so not sure what the issue is. —Joeyconnick (talk) 22:12, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

@Joeyconnick no Falcon's picture is the main page photo. It should be replaced with Eby's. 72.74.55.241 (talk) 19:47, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

@Joeyconnick It is on the mobile version, you are correct it is not on the desktop version. 72.74.55.241 (talk) 19:56, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

This is a fairly common oddity around the wiki, and as far as I can tell, it's something to do with the software — not an editor's decision. I really have no idea what causes the wiki software to choose which image to use as the preview and I'm not sure there's anything we can do to fix it on our end. — Kawnhr (talk) 22:26, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

Polls from Angus Reid

I am unable to find some polls to find the polls in graphs [2] (november 2020 and March 2021) Braganza (talk) 06:07, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

For the two Angus Reid polls in the table for Nov 2020, both sets of numbers come from subsets of the same poll, as seen in the detailed results: http://angusreid.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2020.12.09_Province_Spotlight-PR-Tables.pdf

The difference comes from using "currently support" and "likely to support." I suggest we use the numbers they chose to publish in their main November report, and ignore their numbers in past vote intent graphs. What a mess! Lilactree201 (talk) 10:00, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Which ones did they publish? "Currently" or "Likely"? —Joeyconnick (talk) 18:22, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

"Currently" Lilactree201 (talk) 02:14, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

BC United Colour

Looks like we have two to choose from between teal and pink. My preference would be teal to match the BC Legislature diagram. TDK1881 (talk) 05:09, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

This is being currently discussed in a couple of places: Template talk:Canadian party colour and Talk:British Columbia United. — Kawnhr (talk) 16:09, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

new map issues

hi Talleyrand6

Truncation: the right side of the image is truncated in the thumbnail and full view as seen here.

Contrast: the current very light grey colour of the ridings make distinguishing the white riding borders very difficult. The previous image used a much darker grey where this wasn't an issue.

Additionally, I would set the initial values at "0.0%"... we don't format zero values with double digits. You can also save visual space by removing the "BC" in front of every party name since the image is clearly about BC (i.e. just "New Democratic" "United" "Conservative" "Green").

Finally, per MOS:ABBR and sentence case, the title should be "2024 BC general election" and subsequent heads should be:

• "93 seats in assembly"
• "47 for majority"

And the "Vote %" should have a space between "vote" and "%". —Joeyconnick (talk) 22:53, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Option 1

Option 2

It seems another issue affecting this is the decision to use teal for BC United at Template talk:Canadian party colour/Archive 3#RfC: British Columbia United. That was also discussed at Talk:BC United#Colour. While I was in the camp advocating pink, we seemed to have lost the argument. If we are going to switch to pink, some discussion is likely required.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 23:01, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

Yes, the legend is cut off on the right side of the map we are currently using in the article (Option 2). Perhaps we should revert to the Option 1 map, at least until these issues raised by Joeyconnick are resolved.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 19:05, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

Issues Section

This section seems to be a WP:OR table relying only on party platforms and arguably no reliable sources. Furthermore, MOS:USEPROSE suggests that we should use prose not use a table for this information. Should we blow the section up and start over?-- Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 01:00, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Getting rid of it would be okay by me. —Joeyconnick (talk) 17:17, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Yes, it seems like these issues/platform sections are not included in the articles for the last few BC elections. I think it can be dealt with in a campaign section that sets out relevant details in prose.-- Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 19:12, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

I'm not a fan of these sections; just because people use Wikipedia as an election resource doesn't mean it actually is. We should only cover issues that are flashpoints in the campaign. — Kawnhr (talk) 19:05, 5 April 2024 (UTC)