Talk:Opinion polling for the 2024 United Kingdom general election
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Reviewing this article after the election - split needed?
editWith the election is now in the past, and no further polls to be added, it's probably time that we considered what the best form that this article takes permanently.
The article was tagged as being long, which is a fair assessment. There's about a MB of text here (though few pictures, which means actual page load is not too bad). We could potentially split off some of the smaller sections into articles such as Constituency polling for the 2024 United Kingdom general election, though the majority of the bytes (~600k) are the national polls which is not so easy to split.
If we're honest this article is a clear (though popular) violation of WP:NOTDATABASE. Having a similar length on Opinion polling for the next United Kingdom general election is pretty much inevitable if the next parliment lasts 4 or 5 years. The long-term solution would be somehow have the data hosted elsewhere (Wikidata?) and just summarised here.
One thing we don't have here at the moment is any prose discussion on poll performance, and how polling influenced the campaign.
Anyhow, no need to rush to any changes now - plenty of time to discuss. LukeSurl t c 14:33, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
- I recommend collapsing all the tables and seeing how it loads after that. CNC (talk) 15:48, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
- I agree with this. It's worth a try to collapse all and see if rendering improves.
- Some other options may be to split the 2023 opinion polls off, or to split each constituent country's polls off.
- — Your local Sink Cat (The Sink). 03:50, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- This is the longest page on Wikipedia at the moment. C F A 💬 23:35, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
- Wow, crazy. Splitting off the constituency polling makes sense; we already host national and statewide polling for US Presidential elections on separate pages. GordonGlottal (talk) 01:44, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
- Re: "...prose discussion on poll performance, and how polling influenced the campaign", there is one Financial Times article referenced, but it's behind a paywall so few readers will see it.
- The present article does comment that the Conservative and Liberal Democrat votes were underestimated, and the Labour vote was overestimated . . . but leaves it at that. I suppose it could be argued that saying why there were these discrepancies would be speculation, and not the place if an encyclopaedia, but I expect the polling companies will try to explain them, and reporting that would be ok, wouldn't it? Nick Barnett (talk) 23:12, 2 August 2024 (UTC)
- Splitting by year might work: eg. Opinion polling in 202X for the X UK General Election Btljs (talk) 01:18, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
Wow
editDang this this the longest article on Wikipedia. Didn't think it'd be on something so recent, but that's neat. I've gotta go sit down now because I just read this entire article. From Rushpedia, the free stupid goofball (talk) 19:21, 30 August 2024 (UTC)