Talk:Candidates in the New Zealand general election 2005 by party

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External sites

If people know of candiates external sites can they please link to them? Cheers --Gregstephens 10:28, 21 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I just went around taking a lot of links out. I don't object to them all that much, but I'd just prefer not to have external (and partisan) links mixed in with internal/NPOV links. Also, many of these links may become dead after the election, and leave us with a lot of checking to do. I'd prefer to have a general link to each party's candidate lists, as I've done for Labour, National, the Greens, and the Maori Party. But like I said - I don't care that much about it. -- Vardion 19:07, 21 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I think we should allow them, although I conceed the point that after the election they could easily become dead links. Maybe we should take them all out again afterwards. All I know is that if my party/website is not going to get referrals/PageRank, then I am going to delete other parties links so that they don't get referrals/PageRank. It has to be the same rule for everyone or its not fair. - Drstuey 11:34, 26 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Certainly, the policy should be applied consistently. But I think that's probably a reason for keeping them out — some parties don't even have websites, let alone candidate profiles, and so there's no way to give them equal exposure. But like I said — I'm not all that fussed about it. If people want external links, I won't take them out, but like you say, we should be consistent about including or excluding them. -- Vardion 18:52, 26 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I think it would make sense to link each political party to their internal Wikipedia article. I'm not sure why this hasn't already been done? I'll start on this tomorrow, unless there is some good reason not to link the parties which I'm missing. Ppe42 12:49, September 10, 2005 (UTC)

It would be convenient, but I believe there is a policy that headings should not be links, and I don't see the party names in the text.-gadfium 19:53, 10 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Merge

Given that the AfD decided on a keep, but talked about the possibility of a merge, I suggest that you go ahead and add those politicians who weren't also on a party list to that article. How does that sound? Schwede 66 08:44, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good (presume you were talking to me as nom). Mattlore (talk) 08:51, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]