Talk:Miramichi (electoral district)
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Merger proposal edit
I propose to merge Miramichi (electoral district) into Miramichi-Grand Lake. I think that the content in the Miramichi (electoral district) article can easily be explained in the context of Miramichi-Grand Lake, and the Miramichi-Grand Lake article is of a reasonable size that the merging of Miramichi (electoral district) will not cause any problems as far as article size is concerned.
A new page for an electoral district should only be created if the previous electoral districts have been radically altered, merged, or dismembered. Only 17% of the current Miramichi—Grand Lake wasn't a part of the previous Miramichi electoral district, and much of that 17% has, at one time or another in the past, been a part of the Miramichi electoral district in previous representation orders. A new page is therefore not warranted: note that the Miramichi electoral district changed in substance almost as much in the 2003 redistribution as it did in the 2013 redistribution (with 15.4% of its electors being "new" after the 2003 redistribution), and yet no separate Wikipedia article exists. Also note that, throughout its history, the Miramichi electoral district has incorporated a number of different rural areas bordering the main Northumberland County part of the district; the mere fact that one of these adjoining rural areas now finds its name in the name of the electoral district does not make it a different riding.
For precedents on this, see the layout of the articles for Toronto Centre (which also incorporates previous incarnations, Toronto Centre-Rosedale and Rosedale, into the representation history covered by the article), Dartmouth—Cole Harbour (also covering Dartmouth and Dartmouth—Halifax East), and the Fredericton electoral district (also covering York—Sunbury).