Talk:Allegations of unlawful campaigning in the 2016 EU referendum

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Clean up

I've removed several chunks of content which did not provide support that were within the scope "unlawful campaigning in the 2016 EU referendum". Given the title, we should only include content that describes campaigning that has been proven to be unlawful. -- DeFacto (talk). 20:23, 17 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I think this is an interesting perspective and I agree it's worth discussing. On the other hand, readers may wonder why there's no coverage of notable cases that are ongoing, or notable cases that they have heard of but whose resolution they are unaware of. It seems to me that it would be neater to change the scope of the article, and make it clearer what is and isn't an ongoing case, than delete so much referenced content. I'll have a go at that now and I'd welcome your views on how well it's working. Alarichall (talk) 08:52, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I've had a go at making it clearer which cases are ongoing, and instances of notable cases where no wrongdoing was found. How do you think this looks? Alarichall (talk) 09:06, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Alarichall: I think the article should be renamed approproately, at leat, before such content is restored to avoid WP:CRIME issues. -- DeFacto (talk). 13:05, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I don't mind renaming the article. Personally I think the title can accommodate ongoing investigations and closed cases fine, but I'd welcome alternative suggestions. I'm not sure how WP:CRIME is relevant here: that section discusses whether it's appropriate to create articles about people accused of crimes, which the present article isn't doing. Would you like to suggest a more appropriate name for the article? Alarichall (talk) 16:23, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Alarichall: yes, I meant WP:BLPCRIME and WP:BLP in general. The article title implies all the included examples are of unlawful campaigning - which is clearly unsupported, so violates the policy. As for a new name, if we keep those allegations which were not upheld, then we need to prefix the title with something like "Allegations of...". -- DeFacto (talk). 20:27, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The whole thing needs to be updated. For example, the cases against Banks and Leave.EU have been dropped [1]. EddieHugh (talk) 16:49, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I've changed the name in line with DeFacto's helpful suggestion. I'll try to do some updating next week (though obviously other editors might manage to update things before then). Alarichall (talk) 13:45, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]