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Issue Table

Should each issue listed be individually sourced? Having a source at the top that links to a parties "news" or "policy" section is a bit broad and unspecific. Mr. No Funny Nickname (talk) 18:31, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'm the one who added the more citations needed tag; yes I think everything needs to be sourced individually or removed. -"Ghost of Dan Gurney" 14:45, 13 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think that would be the best option, yes. Wikipageedittor099 (talk) 22:05, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This should be prose. It should not be in a table per WP:WHENTABLE. A similar discussion was recently had at Talk:2022 Conservative Party of Canada leadership election.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 15:53, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Can we come up to a consensus about this? This table is quite unfriendly to navigate. I would support shifting to prose (good luck to whoever volunteers) or at minimum, collapsing the table by default. RoyalObserver (talk) 14:29, 12 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I think shifting to prose may be better suited for after the election, where the issues that were more prevalent will be more clear vs. trying to anticipate in advance what those issues are. For now, I'm in favor of collapsing the table by default.Mr. No Funny Nickname (talk) 14:39, 13 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Are the blank spots indicative of them not having policies relating to that or are people just didn't fill those sections out? Harizotoh9 (talk) 16:11, 3 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Honestly, it could be due to both reasons Shrewd0307 (talk) 19:53, 6 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

An independent source would be required if we are to have statements about the consequences of policies. Policies refer to changes in legislation/regulation that parties are quite indisputably able to achieve if they are in government. The consequences of these policies (e.g. number of jobs created, amount of pollution eliminated etc.) are debatable and as such do not belong in this section. As such, I have removed these statements from the policy section. Upon eliminating these statements, I am now going to attempt to find better information to substitute for them. (i.e. actual policies) Humberland (talk) 22:09, 22 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Info-box

Consistent with other articles, we should leave out minor parties in the info-box that had no reported impact on the campaign. I would just keep the main four parties. 00:37, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

Seats changing hands

I'm in the process of summarizing riding-by-riding results for the election, and Elections Ontario has suddenly decided to remove the interim results pages in favour of very user-unfriendly reports. In the interim, I've posted some summary results tables that I've compiled from the data. Until EO posts final results tables online, I won't be able to cite a stable reference for them. Hopefully it won't be too much longer before I can satisfy the editor that just tagged this with 'Unreferenced section".Raellerby (talk) 20:47, 8 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Okay thanks for the note and your work to get this referenced! Just a thought, but did the old info get archived at archive.org and could be cited from there? - Ahunt (talk) 11:46, 9 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I checked that out. Those pages have gone into a black hole, and archive.org sends you to the 2018 ones instead.Raellerby (talk) 15:51, 9 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Oh that is too bad. In future it may be a good idea with these sorts of things to force regular archives on archive.today or ghostarchive.org, while they are still live, just in case! In recent years I have been archiving pretty much all refs when I add them. - Ahunt (talk) 15:58, 9 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Elections Ontario has finally issued consolidated reports in a readable form. Only six months after Election Day (funny how Quebec had its full reports out a week or so after its election). Some significant changes in some riding results from what came out in the early summer. It will take a bit of time to go through it all and correct what was already in my sandbox.Raellerby (talk) 17:55, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Significant results among independent and minor party candidates

How are we defining "minor party candidates"?

If the definition is candidates from parties which didn't win any seats, there are a number of New Blue and Ontario Party candidates that need to be added (Doing a preliminary lookup, in the 8 Eastern Ontario ridings there are 9 candidates from parties that didn't win a seat but received over 1,000 votes). It is entirely possible that this section could number over 100 candidates.

If minor party does not include New Blue & Ontario Party, the definition needs to be made clearer, or the section needs to be removed, or re-named to just indicate independent candidates. Mr. No Funny Nickname (talk) 16:11, 12 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The cutoff for this table is drawn from the synopsis table in a previous subsection, where parties receiving less than 1% of the vote are grouped under "Other", and Independent candidates are grouped in a separate column. This was done in order to identify unusual results that really stood out. Any further analysis would properly belong to Candidates of the 2022 Ontario general election.Raellerby (talk) 21:06, 11 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]