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👥 A website for crowd-sourcing structured election candidate data
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This person is now in the Lords #1267

Open pmk01 opened 3 years ago

pmk01 commented 3 years ago

Sometimes people die, sometimes they go to the other place.

~Sometimes people edit a profile (add a photo or whatever) of a candidate who is a peer, which is a waste of everyone's time. A tickbox 'sent to the Lords', which locks the profile, would be a way of avoiding this and also would be a nice way to build a dataset.~

symroe commented 3 years ago

Implementation note: this could be done with the existing edit_limitations field.

sjorford commented 3 years ago

Peers can still be candidates in local elections though (and possibly other non-Westminster elections?) although it is unusual:

https://candidates.democracyclub.org.uk/person/63689/greville-patrick-charles-lord-howard-of-rising

pmk01 commented 3 years ago

I did not know that! Hmmm, might still be interesting to store the info and display it on WCIVF...

pmk01 commented 1 year ago

Update: we now have MNIS IDs, so we could do this with some ease.