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removing material about the election result that I added earlier today, with the edit comment "too much detail". This material has direct relevance to the article and is referenced using a reliable source. I would like to discuss the concerns with this material and insert it again with whatever edits
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I guess we should open this up to a wider Bristol WikiProject audience, perhaps after we get a main page DYK (if we get one)? BTW, Mrs S V Hare was just the consort of the mayor at the time, mayoress is just an honorary title for the consort (or daughter) of the mayor. If the mayor has been female
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There needs to be a subsection clearly displaying what the powers of directly elected mayors in the UK are relative to their respective city councils. For instance, do they have veto power over council decision? Do they get to appoint department heads?
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it is excessively detailed for this article, but OK for the George Ferguson article (eg speeding ticket, six international flights, oil shale gas possibility at Avonmouth "hidden" until after election, the 6 para "Public image" section about
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where the detail is left in the people articles, with only major policies in the mayor article (NB I've not found any WP policy on the best approach)
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https://web.archive.org/web/20120503044857/http://liverpool.gov.uk/council/voting-and-elections/Mayoral-elections-2012/Why-a-mayor-for-Liverpool/
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presumably doesn't just mean that a demographic analysis of an election result is "too much detail" for an article about that election.
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then they are still referred to as mayor or Lord Mayor. The mayoress term has now been dropped in favour of deputy Lord Mayor.
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to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
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to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
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were apparently a few of the previous holders of the title Mayor(ess) of Bristol. There was also a titleholder
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section as 3 sentences, unbalanced for that article. I propose to move it back for the following reasons:
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the 2012–2016 section (George Ferguson) section is about 75% of the articles written material now
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OK. I suppose the incorrect inbound links could be dealt with by using a new redirect at
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A year ago a now-blocked user (for sockpuppetry) moved the mayoral detail from
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are required to address them. The edit comment doesn't give me much to go on;
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https://web.archive.org/web/20120513110218/http://www.bristol.gov.uk/node/625
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instead. Alternatively both topics could be included in the one article.
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should be a dab page, with the current new content moved to
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for additional information. I made the following changes:
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detail, so the article is not consistent (or balanced)
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