Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Edmonton Election Pages
Statements by users
User:Sarcasticidealist has created a number of pages on local elections in Edmonton. I believe that purely local elections are not generally notable, except where there is some particular circumstance that garners wider attention and makes them notable. I think that having such a large number of articles on topics of, at best, marginal notability, is not a good idea. If every incorporated municipality in the world (there must be tens of thousands just in the US) has an article on every election (possibly annually for a hundred years or more) we are talking about millions of potential articles. That seems excessive and a matter of undue weight to me. But it is possible that some of this information, at least the winning and losing candidates, might be useful to some readers. perhaps a merge would be proper, or perhaps a combined work of this data would be welcome at Wikibooks with a link from the Edmonton article.
I have created this RFC page in an attempt to get wider consensus on how to deal with these articles, and with possible similar article about other local elections. I am doing this as an alternative to a mass AfD, which might be clumsy. DES (talk) 20:53, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
General discussion
Any untested users please discuss the matter in this section in hopes of reaching a consensus. Thank you.
Specific articles involved
The articles in question are included in Category:Elections in Edmonton and linked to in {{Edmonton elections}}. The actual articles, at the moment, are:
- Edmonton municipal by-election, 1907
- Edmonton municipal by-election, 1911
- Edmonton municipal by-election, 1912
- Edmonton municipal election, 1892
- Edmonton municipal election, 1893
- Edmonton municipal election, 1894
- Edmonton municipal election, 1895
- Edmonton municipal election, 1897
- Edmonton municipal election, 1898
- Edmonton municipal election, 1899
- Edmonton municipal election, 1900
- Edmonton municipal election, 1901
- Edmonton municipal election, 1902
- Edmonton municipal election, 1903
- Edmonton municipal election, 1904
- Edmonton municipal election, 1905
- Edmonton municipal election, 1906
- Edmonton municipal election, 1907
- Edmonton municipal election, 1908
- Edmonton municipal election, 1909
- Edmonton municipal election, 1910
- Edmonton municipal election, 1913
- Edmonton municipal election, 1914
- Edmonton municipal election, 1915
- Edmonton municipal election, 1916
- Edmonton municipal election, 1917
- Edmonton municipal election, 1918
- Edmonton municipal election, 1919
- Edmonton municipal election, 1920
- Edmonton municipal election, 1921
- Edmonton municipal election, 1922
- Edmonton municipal election, 1923
- Edmonton municipal election, 1924
- Edmonton municipal election, 1925
- Edmonton municipal election, 1926
- Edmonton municipal election, 1927
- Edmonton municipal election, 1928
- Edmonton municipal election, 1929
- Edmonton municipal election, 1930
- Edmonton municipal election, 1931
- Edmonton municipal election, 1932
- Edmonton municipal election, 1933
- Edmonton municipal election, 1934
- Edmonton municipal election, 1935
- Edmonton municipal election, 1936
- Edmonton municipal election, 1937
- Edmonton municipal election, 1938
- Edmonton municipal election, 1939
- Edmonton municipal election, 1940
- Edmonton municipal election, 1941
- Edmonton municipal election, 1942
- Edmonton municipal election, 1943
- Edmonton municipal election, 1944
- Edmonton municipal election, 1945
- Edmonton municipal election, 1946
- Edmonton municipal election, 1947
- Edmonton municipal election, 1948
- Edmonton municipal election, 1949
- Edmonton municipal election, 1950
- Edmonton municipal election, December 1896
- Edmonton municipal election, December 1912
- Edmonton municipal election, February 1912
- Edmonton municipal election, January 1896