Doesn’t mean that nobody uses “Tories” of course - just safer I think if we go by “Conservatives”. Most Conservatives aren’t offended by the term these days but it does affect a little the NPOV of it :)

On 4 May 2015 at 8:09:23 pm, Michael Guss (mguss@wikimedia.org) wrote:

Thanks Joe!  

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Joe Sutherland <jsutherland@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Try to avoid “Tories” if you can, it’s more neutral to call them “Conservative”. “Tory” is a pejorative.

Joe

On 4 May 2015 at 7:59:57 pm, Michael Guss (mguss@wikimedia.org) wrote:

Does anyone read Wikipedia around the election time? - We think yes

Election season is upon the UK and we have interesting research promoting Wikipedia as a reference (or rather demonstrating that is already a reference) for reading about candidates. Nice imagery as well. 


t: UK Tories dominate @Wikipedia, beating #Labour, #UKIP 

t: Why are there so many more @Wikipedia articles on the #Tories than every other UK political party? 

t: Appears the #Tories have already won, at least in representation on @Wikipedia, shows #dataviz @TahaYasseri

f/g: Why are there so many more Wikipedia articles on the Tories than every other UK political party? 

f/g: With the United Kingdom general election only days away, which political parties are already winning online? On Wikipedia, the Tories beat out the rest.

f/g: This geographical distribution based on Wikipedia data reveals alarming disparity between UK political parties. 







 

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