Talk:32nd Dáil

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Workers and Unemployed Action[edit]

nobody ran for the Workers and Unemployed Action in GE 2016 so nobody from Workers and Unemployed Action was elected to Dail http://tipperaryreturningofficer.com/index.php/general-election-2016/7-notice-of-poll — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.45.123.145 (talk) 18:10, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

"Séamus Healy was elected as a non-party candidate, but was entered onto the Dáil register from the outset as a Workers and Unemployed Action TD, the same party he was registered under in the 31st Dáil." I thought Wikipedia required proof. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Expectationlost (talk • contribs) 22:37, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Sortable table[edit]

I have just edited the article[1] to make the list of TDs by party a sortable list.

This seems to work fine, making the second list (TDs by constituency) redundant. So I removed it.

Pinging major contributors to the article to see what you all think: @Bogger, Jnestorius, Cassandro, Mobile mundo, Spleodrach, and Wikimucker:

I'd like to do the same to the lists for the previous 31 Dails, but best to check first whether there are any probs I haven't spotted. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:59, 6 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good, but I'm not sure we need "Fine Gael (50)" rather than "Fine Gael": the 50 is in the summary table and looks odd once the rows are sorted. A bigger point: ideally we would have some or all of the Changes section incorporated into the main table as well; obviously this is a bigger deal for previous Dáils than the current one. I'm not sure how to do this. If we replaced the single "Party" column with two columns ("Party at start of Dáil" and "Party at dissolution of Dáil" ["current party" for 32nd Dáil]) that would handle the most common cases (different values for defections; blank End for vacated seat, blank Start for by-election) but not others (temporary defections, re-defections, and the few George Lee midterm-only TDs). jnestorius^(talk) 22:55, 6 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, jnestorius.

I agree about getting rid of the numbers. They are displayed more helpfully in the summary table, and are suerfluous in the main table.

In Members of the 30th Dáil and Members of the 31st Dáil, the main table records only the membership and party affiliation as of the GE, before the Dáil met. So introducing the sorting to previous Dáils wouldn't degrade the existing configuration of keeping the changes in a separate section.

I really can't see how one table could incorporate all the changes without becoming v complex and unwieldy, because some TDs in some Dáils jump around a lot (e.g. in the 31st Dail, Roisin Shortall had 3 party labels: Lab, Indp, SocDem. I'm sure there are some with even more changes than that. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:24, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that merging the current two tables into one is definitely an improvement; my point is that if there is further scope for improvement then it would be more efficient to decide on that now, rather than doing a first pass of the other articles (based on your model so far) and a second round of further improvement later. As regards further scope for improvement, I think it's suboptimal to give priority to the initial membership (which relates as much to say Irish general election, 2007 as to Members of the 30th Dáil) and relegate five years' worth of changes to later sections. A "Notes" column could handle situations more complex than "Party at start of Dáil" and "Party at dissolution of Dáil". I did say "some or all", not "all" of the Changes section. jnestorius^(talk) 00:47, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I second jnestorius' opinion. Merging the tables was a good idea, the numbers aren't needed and a notes section (with references) can help the question if a party change (or going indy) occurs. Cassandro (talk) 06:43, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The merged table looks better. The numbers are already listed in the summary table and are not needed in merged table. (Mobile mundo (talk) 16:36, 7 July 2016 (UTC))[reply]

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