Wikipedia:WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom/to do

General maintenance work

• Political make-up of local councils in the United Kingdom is a high-maintenance but high-importance page. A proposal: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Politics of the United Kingdom/Archive 8#Adopt a council! (a project proposal). Cheers! FLYING CHRYSALIS ^💬 11:55, 27 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
• Expand coverage of articles in Category:Results of United Kingdom general elections by parliamentary constituency so that they reach the fullest extent, and reformat the existing articles to one massive table each. FoxyGrampa75 (talk) 00:24, 17 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Add sources to Unreferenced BLPs.
• Expand any of our stub articles.
• Particularly for former MPs who have short (stub) articles. Who's Who is a good place to find basic information for adding to an article - it may be available online for free via your local library.—TrottieTrue (talk) 12:08, 3 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Identify pages that need infoboxes by adding |needs-infobox=yes to the project banner.
• All MPs past and present should have infoboxes - this is mainly an issue for those who served several decades ago or longer
• Add infoboxes to any articles appearing in this category.
• Correct any infoboxes which don't have "Member of Parliament” hyperlinked at the top. This seems to have occurred because "constituencyMP" is used as a field instead of "office". Replace "constituencyMP" with | office = [[Member of Parliament (UK)|Member of Parliament]]<br />for [[seat name (UK Parliament constituency)|seat name]]. Remember to number "office" if the person has multiple offices in the box.
• Check this category for any articles requiring urgent attention.
• Add {{WP UK Politics}} to all talk pages within the project scope.
• Assess the quality of all our unassessed articles
• Identify pages that need images by adding |needs-picture=yes to the project banner.
• Find images for any articles listed in this category.
• Historical local election results are lacking from many articles. I've added 2014 and 2018 results for Westminster City Council, but there's virtually nothing pre-dating that for Westminster. It seems quite hit and miss as to whether historical results will be available for other councils. I think metropolitan boroughs (ie. London and Manchester) are often covered more comprehensively - Islington has results for 1998, I think. These historic results are often of interest for the high-profile figures who contested those elections. Local election results for years gone by are available online (Andrew Teale, Elections Centre and the London Datastore sites being notable sources) and could be transcribed here. I think the London councils might be a first goal to complete.--TrottieTrue (talk) 01:11, 13 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
• Add referenced dates of birth from reliable sources for serving MPs etc - a number of MPs elected in 2019 have no DOB on their article.
• Add referenced dates of birth from reliable sources to the article List of living former United Kingdom MPs, also checking the subject's article has a citation for the DOB.

Specific requests

• Help with formatting on List of Welsh Assembly by-elections I cant create a box for Assembly by elections to match regional changes. I think they would look better if they where both in smart tidy boxes
• Someone to take a look at this table: https://en.wikipedia.orgview_html.php?sq=Rhythm Is a Dancer Song by Snap!&lang=en&q=Parliament_of_Northern_Ireland#General_elections_and_composition I can see what someone was trying to achieve but it needs work. Littlemonday (talk) 20:10, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
• The results for some 19th century general elections at the Conservative Party page are inconsistent with figures on other pages. This needs addressing as a matter of importance if someone can verify the correct figures. For more info on this see Talk:Conservative Party (UK)/Archive 1#Info box for UK general elections.
• Urgently require clean-up and improvement at United Kingdom government austerity programme.
• Expand the Kingdom of Great Britain ministry articles.
• Improve the Premiership of Gordon Brown article.
• Urgently need to include new content from Labour in office 1997-2010, and Labour under their former leader, Ed Miliband.