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A website for crowd-sourcing structured election candidate data
https://candidates.democracyclub.org.uk/
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the bulk add review page should show the party as well as candidate name #827

Open mhl opened 8 years ago

mhl commented 8 years ago

On the review page, you see a list like this:

need-parties-too

It would be great is this page also listed the party that the candidate has been indicated as standing for, so you can check that at the same time.

Cc: @symroe

jf1 commented 8 years ago

I note all the "a person with [similar] name" options are people who are currently standing - does the search look for matches on previous candidates first/too?

I've just responded with a +1 to this in #843, suggesting that previous party/location info is placed in a tool-tip/popup. If limited to one candidacy eg "who last stood in..." then the info could be displayed in-line without risk of overloading the page.

I can think of one person who was in YNMP and is now an active candidate in a local election. https://candidates.democracyclub.org.uk/person/1554 has been updated so on this occasion no duplicate was created.