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Some links to polls for yougov in October 2011 are now dead. Should these be removed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.100.47.241 (talk) 15:33, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

No, that won't be necessary, that's why we include the accessdate in our sources, links die all the time. Nick Nick Dancer 13:51, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

Different charts for different polling companies

Looking at the chart on the page (kudos to whoever made it by the way, great job there), I wonder if it is worth splitting it by polling company. For instance, YouGov's polling always seems to give Labour a higher lead than ComRes, even when taken at the same time. The result of putting them all on the same graphic results in difficult-to-read and often erratic lines. I'm not sure how it would look, but does anyone else think it would be better to have different graphs for each company, for instance one for YouGov, Populus, ComRes, etc.

What do other editors think?

And perhaps most importantly, does anyone know how best to achieve this; my skills are beginner level at best. —JeevanJones (talk) 22:52, 1 June 2012 (UTC)

I'm of the view that the table should reflect all figures. Our graph should more or less be the Poll of Polls, that way we're not favouring one polster over another! It gives more of a long run average. See above discussion for new graph to continue discussion! Nick Nick Dancer 13:49, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

It looks like this page got deserted from 30 June onwards, with a single entry on 15 August. I've added up until 9 July, but here's a list I've quickly put together of YouGov polling up to 16 September. This should hopefully be helpful for Wikipedians when updating the polling list. I'll work through the list as best I can when I have time to do so, though a big catchup is needed, and therefore assistance from a few users would be the best way to get up to date.

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/09/12/update-labour-lead-13/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/09/11/update-labour-lead-11/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/09/09/update-labour-lead-10/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/09/07/update-labour-lead-strong/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/09/06/update-labour-lead-12/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/09/05/update-labour-lead-6/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/09/04/update-labour-ahead-11/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/09/02/update-labour-lead-6/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/08/31/update-labour-ahead-9/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/08/30/update-labour-lead-strong/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/08/29/update-labour-lead-12/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/08/26/update-labour-lead-9/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/08/24/update-labour-lead-12/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/08/22/update-labour-lead-9/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/08/21/update-labour-lead-strong/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/08/20/update-labour-ahead-10/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/08/19/update-labour-lead-11/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/08/16/update-labour-lead-9/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/08/15/update-labour-lead-9/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/08/14/update-labour-lead-10/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/08/13/update-labour-lead-stable/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/08/12/update-labour-ahead-8/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/08/09/update-labour-lead-9/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/08/08/update-labour-ahead-9/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/08/07/update-labour-lead-strong/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/08/06/update-labour-lead-10/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/08/05/update-labour-lead-strong/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/08/02/update-labour-lead-11/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/08/01/update-labour-lead-11/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/07/31/update-labour-lead-8/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/07/30/update-labour-ahead-11/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/07/29/update-labour-lead-9/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/07/26/update-labour-lead-9/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/07/25/update-labour-lead-strong/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/07/24/update-labour-lead-11/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/07/23/update-labour-lead-10/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/07/22/update-labour-ahead-9/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/07/19/update-labour-lead-8/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/07/18/update-labour-ahead-10/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/07/17/update-labour-ahead-9/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/07/16/update-labour-ahead-11/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/07/15/update-labour-ahead-9/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/07/12/update-labour-ahead-8/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/07/11/update-labour-ahead-7/

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/07/10/update-labour-lead-10/

This is ordered from the oldest at the bottom to the most recent at time of posting at the top. —JeevanJones (talk) 23:10, 17 September 2012 (UTC)

Can people possibly delete the polls they have added or mark them some how (maybe with a * in front once they have done them because it's confusing, I'd like to help out but I'm gonna give myself headache checking each one and I need like 4browsers open. Help me, help you :-) Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.133.12.45 (talk) 02:00, 18 December 2012 (UTC)

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