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November Esperanza Newsletter

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Wilcox-McCandlish law

I have restored this article which you commented on during the last AFD following a reasonable objection raised by the primary author. However I have relisted it at AFD in an attempt to reach a consensus. You may like to give your opinion. Cheers, Yomangani^talk 11:10, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ill Mitch (2nd nomination)‎

Hello. Re your vote at the article's original AFD, you might like to comment at the AFD for its recreation. Cheers. The JPS^{talk to me} 00:53, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Hurricane predictions

I probably won't put up the betting pool/predictions page until March or April, when we have a better idea of what the upcoming season is going to be like. No predictions even came close last year because everyone cast their predictions in December or January. bob rulz 22:54, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Happy Birthday!

	Happy Birthday	from the Birthday Committee
	Wishing Doktorbuk/Archive3 a very happy birthday on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Don't forget to save us all a piece of cake!

> Kamope < 00:00, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

What's the basis of claiming that Valerie Wise will be Respect candidate in Tulketh? Liberal Democrat mishief-making or just plain stupidity? And are all your entries in Wikipedia based on fiction, because how else can we know whether what you are spouting is crap or truth?

Come clean - and get rid of it if you do not know whether it's true or not!

Can someone take off my link to my website? RickSeymour 20:04, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

UK general election targets

I'd not caught the note on the page, but thank you so much for clearing it up! Perhaps a note on that section of the page would be apropos in case anyone else is confused, if they are. What can I say - I'm American, so I'm still learning. ;) Wally 19:52, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

NI BC report

Since you seem to be the initial and/or main author of the article on constituencies in the next United Kingdom general election, I thought I'd ask you: according to parliamentary question time from June 06, the final recommendations for NI should be treated in the HoC now, shouldn't they...? —Nightstallion 22:33, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

Hey Nightstallion! Yeah, the Northern Ireland constituencies were supposed to be all sorted this year. Then the other boundary committee in the province began (or went to the next stage of) a massive reform of local government boundaries making the parliamentary proposals fairly obsolete. So now one will have to wait a few more months (years?!) for the other to report. Cheers, doktorb _words^deeds 09:04, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Oh? Interesting! Could you direct me to where I can find information on the local government changes? Haven't heard anything at all about that yet... And I suppose this means if there's an early election this autumn or next spring, as is currently rumoured, the boundaries would remain for the election? —Nightstallion 09:06, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Top of my head....can't think of the link. It's not one of those rememberablenames.com ones either, from memory. I just recall visiting the parliamentary constituency website to be told the proposals were being "deferred". And yeah, if an early election is called Norn Iron would be under the current, existing boundaries, with the rest of the UK on the newly accepted proposals. doktorb _words^deeds 09:12, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Okay, thanks! Incidentally, you wouldn't happen to know why we haven't got an article on the local government changes in England yet? I've tried to find out whether the list of new unitary authorities is official now and when *exactly* it will be implemented, but the information is spread out over several pages and sometimes contradicts itself... —Nightstallion 09:17, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

English local government

Heh, knowing the way these things work, you'll be lucky to find something in one place! The BBC article - again, from memory, no link - spoke of 2009 as being the year of changes, but it will probably need some searching around for. I would recommend the Government web site but, heh, they're not best known for being terribly useful. doktorb _words^deeds 09:22, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

What I've got from news articles and such is:

“ Local government reform in England means new unitary authorities in Bedford, Cheshire (City of Chester and West Cheshire and Cheshire East), Cornwall, County Durham, Exeter, Ipswich, Northumberland, Shropshire, Wiltshire, to be implemented by April 2009. ”

But I'm quite surprised there's no article like 2007 English local government reform, or something like that -- especially since AFAIK there's a great number of people interested in the intricacies of the English local government system on Wikipedia... —Nightstallion 09:28, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

AHA! I think Districts of Northern Ireland has what we wanted to know:

“ In June 2007, following the restoration of a power-sharing Executive, it became clear that the plan to create seven "super-councils" was to be reviewed, if not abandoned. In July, Arlene Foster, Minister for the Environment in the Executive, announced a review. A committee was established which it is hoped will report by the end of 2007. The new review is likely to mean that the present structure will continue unchanged until 2011. ”

So much for that, then. No constituency review until the districts are clarified, and *that* will apparently take until after the next general election. —Nightstallion 14:09, 4 August 2007 (UTC)