Talk:2013 Alberta municipal elections

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Elections and Referendums, an ongoing effort to improve the quality of, expand upon and create new articles relating to elections, electoral reform and other aspects of democratic decision-making. For more information, visit our project page.Elections and ReferendumsWikipedia:WikiProject Elections and ReferendumsTemplate:WikiProject Elections and ReferendumsElections and Referendums articles

Canada: Alberta / Politics Mid‑importance

	Canada portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Canada, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Canada on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CanadaWikipedia:WikiProject CanadaTemplate:WikiProject CanadaCanada-related articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by WikiProject Alberta.
	This article is supported by WikiProject Political parties and politicians in Canada.

Proposal to remove "7500" threshold[edit]

While used in the 2010 article, I feel this number is arbitrary, when there really is no established limit on Wikipedia. For the Ontario municipal elections, 2010 were included results for every single municipality. For other provinces, I usually use a 5000 threshold. It would probably be more consistent to use 5000 as a threshold, because that's what I use for most other provinces. But, there really should be none at all. I only use it because I don't have the resources to include every municipality in every province. -- Earl Andrew - talk 04:28, 22 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Comment The "5,000" threshold is also arbitrary. I have no opposition to reducing it to this figure, but if it is, my only concern is the list must be complete and properly referenced (and referenced soon as RS references tend to evaporate off the web quite quickly). Hwy43 (talk) 04:45, 22 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, the repercussions of this are expanding the MD results from the current 6 to 33 (regardless is the chief elected official is elected at large or appointed from within) and returning Crowsnest Pass under SM results. Hwy43 (talk) 04:53, 22 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, 5000 is as arbitrary as 7500. It is about the availability of reliable sources, in 2010 it was about 7500. I have still yet to see how easy it will be to write them up this year. 117Avenue (talk) 05:11, 22 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Of course 5000 is just as arbitrary- I just wanted to point out that's what I've been using. But let's not remove properly sourced content. If we can't find the sources, then I agree we should raise the threshold. However, I've never had that much difficulty in other provinces finding sources for municipal election results of places that small. -- Earl Andrew - talk 12:06, 22 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In the last two Alberta municipal elections, results of the councillor races were included. This only includes mayoral thus far. Is the intent the same for this election? If so, there's a long way to go yet. I don't have much time this week until Thursday, but I'll try to PDF the results of all over 5,000 before the results vanish from the web. Hwy43 (talk) 18:26, 22 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Also, what about plebiscites where applicable? Hwy43 (talk) 18:27, 22 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to include these, as well as an explanation of school boards, but I haven't had that much time during the campaign either. 117Avenue (talk) 20:29, 22 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified[edit]

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Alberta municipal elections, 2013. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 18 January 2022).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 03:38, 30 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]