Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of Zambian parliamentary constituencies/archive1

List of Zambian parliamentary constituencies

Featured list candidates/List of Zambian parliamentary constituencies/archive1

Nominator(s): -MPGuy2824 (talk) 12:16, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The 4th nomination in the constituency series. I've improved the lead, added a history section, and converted the list into a table with more information than was present before. I've modelled it on similar FLs like Tripura and Mizoram. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 12:16, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

How are the constituencies formed? Why is there an enormous difference in size among them? Does Zambia have governance and representation issues because of this severe malapportionment?
Would it make sense to list the Districts of Zambia covered in addition to the Province they're in?
Why does Template:Zambian constituencies have a Sinjembela listed?
I know this is a straightforward topic that might not have a ton of information, but the lead is still quite short and the table is just from a single source. Is there anything else that can be added to make this the best of Wikipedia? Reywas92^Talk 15:01, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Reywas92, question: I am slightly new, but would that make it fail WP:CFORK? sorry if this is stupid 48JCL public (talk) 19:04, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure it's a cfork, but List of members of the National Assembly of Zambia (2021–2026) already has the names of constituencies, along with the incumbents, so there's some duplication there. This should have enough info to justify a separate page and a gold star. Reywas92^Talk 14:06, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Formation of constituencies: Added info to the lead.
- I've added a district column to the table.
- Sinjembela is a former constituency. Since it would pass NGEO, I didn't remove it from the template, but moved it to its own section.
- I have an explanation for the disparity in constituencies, but it would be WP:OR, so I'm not adding it to the article. I'll provide my explanation here for folks who might be interested: The rule is that a constituency cannot cover more than a district. This wouldn't be a problem if there were 4 or 5 times the number of constituencies as districts, but Zambia has 116 districts and 156 constituencies. The highly populated districts cannot be divided into a lot of constituencies because of this. This was interesting to find out, so thanks for asking the question. I tried to look for studies about the disparity in constituency size, but came up with nothing, unfortunately.
- If there is any other information that you or someone else can think of that is relevant to the list, I'm happy to do the research and add to the lead. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 14:09, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Drive by comments

Alt-text for File:Zambia National Assembly Building.jpg is missing.
Infobox could be expanded. Information like voting system and number of seats, which are mentioned in Tripura and Mizoram, could be included here as well.
Ref 1 and Ref 10 (|archive-date=) follows ymd date format, while the rest of the citations follow dmy date format. Nitro Absynthe (talk) 19:24, 18 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for checking. Fixed all of these. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 11:01, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]