Talk:Reading East (UK Parliament constituency)

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Fixing-up and reverting changes by 80N[edit]

This article has been rewritten by what I shall, giving the benefit of the doubt, assume is a bot that wasn't really intended to deal with those constituencies that already had reasonable articles.

I'm making the following changes:

  1. Remove unnecessary disambiguation header
  2. Remove statement It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. as this is true of all UK constituencies and doesn't need repeating 600-odd times
  3. Remove {{sect-stub}} from section on boundaries; this is a full list of the wards and parishes in the constituency
  4. Remove {{expand list}} from section 'Member of Parliament'; how can you possibly expand the list when it contains the one and only MP.
  5. Put the 1997 results into the same template format as the 2001 results, so the contrast doesn't look so manky.

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Comment on point 2 in the unsigned post above. I am not sure we can assume that every reader of a constituency article will realise that the UK elects one member per constituency, by first past the post. It is true that most UK constituencies since 1885 and all since 1950 have only had one seat. However this was not necessarily the case before 1950 and may change in the future. Similarly the electoral systems used for earlier multi-member seats differed from first past the post in a single member constituency (bloc vote, limited vote and single transferable vote have been used in the past). Further change to the electoral system is by no means impossible in the next Parliament or two. However having made these points I do not feel any need to revert this particular article, but I would not delete the number of MPs and electoral systems note as a general rule. --Gary J 19:14, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Demographic and Economic Profile[edit]

This section would appear to have been added in response to the change of MP at the 2017 General Election. Although - based on my local knowledge - it would appear to be broadly accurate, it makes some rather sweeping assertions and, as already noted by Chris j Wood, it is wholly unsupported by relevant citations to outside sources. Unless the more sweeping and subjective assertions are deleted, and those that are retained are supported by verifiable citations, the section really should be deleted.Ntmr (talk) 15:37, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed - chris_j_wood (talk) 16:52, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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