Talk:Lowestoft (UK Parliament constituency)

HELP!

My election box has gone wrong for the 1959 general election does anyone know how to sort it out? It would be great if someone could. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lifeontheedge (talk • contribs) 23:22, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

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Merge proposal

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To not merge, given that counterexamples abound (regarding merge policy in this area), and hence a merge consensus would be better approached through an omnibus proposal or broader RfC. Klbrain (talk) 15:20, 26 December 2023 (UTC)

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I propose merging Waveney (UK Parliament constituency) into Lowestoft (UK Parliament constituency). Boundary changes between the two constituency names are only marginal, both in 1983 and now, and it would be easier to follow and write about, e.g. past election history and trends, if the information was all in one article. Similarly to the way there aren't two separate articles on Anglesey (UK Parliament constituency) and Ynys Môn (UK Parliament constituency). Chessrat ^{(talk, contributions)} 12:47, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

Disagree. Ynys Mon happens to be the Welsh name for Anglesey, and the boundaries will be completely unchanged. Neither is the case here. I would even hold that for, for example, 'Keighley and Ilkley' which will be the Keighley constituency, no boundary changes and just a new name. The articles should not be merged. FieldOfWheat (talk) 21:00, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Disagree. This a tricky one and there are other examples where articles have been merged e.g. Blyth/Blyth Valley and Dover/Dover and Deal. There are 4 other instances of names being changed without boundary changes in the 2023 review, with quite a few others with similar names and modest boundary changes, e.g. Sherwood/Sherwood Forest and, in Suffolk, Bury St Edmunds/Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket. If we are going to merge Waveney and Lowestoft, then all these other examples would have to be covered by one article and where do we draw the line? JSboundaryman (talk) 20:00, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

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