Inconsistencies in unique ID field "name.id"

[danielcaseyAus]

There are a small number of examples of multiple MPs being given the same name.id. I'm not sure if this is in your code or in the parlinfo data:

Examples I've found so far:

• FB6 has been assigned to both Gary Hardgrave and Andrew Thomson. (Thomson is correct, Hardgrave is CK6)
• WI4 is assigned to both Peter Reith (correct) and Kim Beazley (incorrect)
• ZD4 is assgned to both John Howard (correct) and in one instance to the Speaker
• YU5 is assigned to Michael Cobb (incorrect) and Lindsey Tanner (correct)

There may be others.

[RohanAlexander]

@danielcaseyAus - Thank you very much. We'll address these.

[RohanAlexander]

@lindsaykatz - I had a look at the XML and in all these cases it looks to me like they are mistakes in the original XML, which we've then propagated.

(That said, I thought we had tests for this, so I'm surprised we didn't pick them up. All four cases are in 1998/99, so maybe there was some tweak then which means the tests missed this.)

FB6

WI4

ZD4

YU5

Let's discuss at tomorrow's meeting whether you have the bandwidth to be able to (in increasing time commitment):

1. Fix these particular mistakes.
2. Revisit the names tests and address any similar mistakes.
3. Update the full testing suite and deal with any issues and update to add in 2023.

[lindsaykatz]

Thank you for checking these @RohanAlexander, and that sounds good for our chat tomorrow. I recall there being a lot of cases like this that we had to fix manually where name ID's were attributed to the wrong MP in the XML.

[lindsaykatz]

Hi @danielcaseyAus - thank you again for identifying these issues. I just wanted to let you know that we are working on fixing them (and any others that we catch in the process). We will let you know when that is done.