Candidates are not eligible for their own pages, but, for example, they could be put on pages like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Hamlets_(UK_ Parliament_constituency) Wikidata, not sure, but tends to be much more lax about these kind of things.On 21 April 2017 at 16:07, John Lubbock <john.lubbock@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:I'm not sure about that Ed. I've encountered this issue before and the notability criteria for politicians is quite clear that they have to be elected to merit a page, I believe. I would assume the same applies for Wikidata?On 21 April 2017 at 14:32, Edward Saperia <edsaperia@gmail.com> wrote:For their own pages, sure, but they can be put in other places (constituencies?), and probably in Wikidata too.On 21 April 2017 at 14:08, Katie Chan <ktc@ktchan.info> wrote:On 21/04/2017 11:27, Edward Saperia wrote:
I think it'd be good to have the GE candidates as they're announced as
well, maybe we can do something around that?
Notability would be issue with candidates.
Katie
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