Talk:Politics of the Highland council area

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Lists of councillors[edit]

I am looking at Highland Council wards and councillors 1999 to 2003 and Highland Council wards and councillors 2003 to 2007, and thinking that, in listing councillors, they go down to too low a level of detail.
I have created, recently, Highland Council wards to be created in 2007, but I do not intend to expand this, next year, to include a list of councillors elected in 2007, or to create an article called, say, Highland Council members 2007 to 2011.
As regards the 1999 to 2007 period, I am thinking it would be better to have one article called Highland council wards 1999 to 2007, and some history of political representation (numbers representing each party and numbers of independents) in Politics of the Highland Council area.
Laurel Bush 12:27, 8 August 2006 (UTC).[reply]

I have now created "Highland Council wards 1999 to 2007", and I am thinking "Highland Council wards and councillors 1999 to 2003" and "Highland Council wards and councillors 2003 to 2007" should become redirects to "Politics of the Highland council area", or should be deleted. Laurel Bush 11:22, 2 September 2006 (UTC).[reply]

|Michael Foxley, leader of the Liberal Democrat Group is the new Conviner.Wipsenade (talk) 17:14, 6 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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North Highland[edit]

I wonder if maybe North Highland should be a new article about the North Highland consulting firm (one of the world's 25 largest consultancies, and noted for its consultants working in the metro area where they live), rather than a redirect to a Scottish politics page? What do other Wikipedians think? - 2001:558:1400:10:104A:6190:C796:D001 (talk) 18:04, 4 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Merge suggestion[edit]

I propose that Highland (council area) be merged into Politics of the Highland council area. Much of the content in the two articles is repeated, or relates to matters which could be covered under the same article.

The article name to be used is open to debate, personally I am more familiar with the West Coast convention which use Glasgow City Council with Politics of Glasgow as a redirect; however, I see that the article covering Dundee is Politics of Dundee with Dundee City Council as a redirect. Edinburgh and Aberdeen currently also have two articles on their local politics, which again seems unnecessary and I have made the same suggestion on those pages here (Edinburgh) and here (Aberdeen).

I will mention this suggestion on WP:SCOTLAND for further input: here is the entry. Crowsus (talk) 13:26, 11 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe merge the Politics article instead, but the council area is a major enough topic that separate articles are probably viable, although some of the repetition could be removed. Crouch, Swale (talk) 20:51, 13 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose merge. The council area is not the same as the council – they are the principal geographical subdivision we currently have in Scotland. A good article on a council area would cover much non-political content, such as history, geography, demographics etc. There is, however, an article on The Highland Council for which a merge with this article might be appropriate. Jellyman (talk) 18:25, 2 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment by proposer: having considered this, I am now of the opinion that the presence of two articles is valid, and wish to withdraw the proposal; I will instead look to make/seek improvements to the Glasgow article with a view to splitting it similarly into historical and current articles; with sufficient content it would be justified as exists for the other cities, but I would say that the content is not at the required standard and breadth to separate at present. As highlighted above, I would definitely agree that The Highland Council and Highland (council area) are synonymous and should be merged leaving this Politics article for the wider and historical issues of the region. Crowsus (talk) 19:05, 2 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

New proposal now added here. Crowsus (talk) 19:25, 2 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]