Talk:List of Western Australian state by-elections

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My DSL got shaped. :( Work on this will resume in April. Orderinchaos 05:07, 29 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Finished all but 1890-1899 and LC. Will work on those later - about to be shaped again in 8 mins. Orderinchaos 01:52, 30 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Great job so far - but why are the pre-1960 by-elections linking to the electorates and not the actual by-elections? They might be early, but it's not like we don't have results for them, and considering this is a list of by-elections it seems a bit odd not to link them. Rebecca (talk) 07:01, 31 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Several of them were unopposed or in and of themselves were not events. I'm really not sure what to do, but I actually followed a Canadian lead on this one where they had the recent ones as links, and the older ones as electorate links. The ideal answer would be to have links to *both*, but the width of the table wouldn't accommodate that. :/

On another note, the damn thing is getting so large, even with my efforts to economise on bytes, that the LC ones will definitely have to go on a new page. Orderinchaos 00:21, 1 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Could we link all the ones that were opposed then? I remember having this problem when I tried to throw together a NSW list. Rebecca (talk) 05:18, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I've linked back to 1950 - not sure what to do about the two unopposed ones in that period. Orderinchaos 05:26, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I know. Maybe as a start just mark them as (Unc) next to the electorate? Rebecca (talk) 05:49, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wouldn't be surprised if there's a few more lurking. I constructed the table by cut and pasting similar looking entries and adjusting them, and on some occasions I forgot to adjust. :) The *data* comes straight from the members tables though, so it's easily enough checked (and I found some errors or omissions in those as I was going through, and they've been book-source checked.) Thanks to those who have fixed issues with it. The source for the Ministerial by-elections btw is actually Hughes and Graham (1976) not Black and Prescott (1997), as Black (and the parliamentary library's list) omitted nearly all of the unopposed ones, however I had separately confirmed through Government Gazettes ages ago that the parliamentarians involved actually resigned and recontested so should be in our table. Orderinchaos 04:31, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Oh and I'll get the Pennefather and Lefroy details next time I'm at UWA or Battye. If someone beats me to it, it'll be the gazette immediately after their appointment to the ministry, and the close of nominations date is the one we want. Orderinchaos 04:35, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes my checking was by no means thorough. I just targeted some obvious copy & paste errors. Worth going through more thoroughly if you can. Digestible (talk) 06:03, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]