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To party members who may wish to edit the article: please see WP:COI regarding conflict-of-interest concerning members of organizations editing articles about those organizations. this is a general comment/warning being placed on all BC political party pages because of problems with some articles...If you are a member of this party you should not be editing this article!!.Skookum1 01:30, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

New party with same name registered, older party was de-registered in 2009

Hi,

I am trying to update the information that a new party with same name has been registered, and information about the new party.

What's the best way to go about it?

The new party can be verified at Elections BC Government website: https://elections.bc.ca/docs/fin/Registered-Political-Parties-Information.pdf

Why does my entry keeps getting reverted?

Thanks! Amrit.Birring (talk) 18:59, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You can't hijack the article of a former party to represent a new party with the same name. The party also needs to become at least somewhat relevant before it deserves an article of its own! Vif12vf/Tiberius (talk) 22:11, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the explanation!

There are two issues here if I understand you correctly:

The new party is not relevant yet
The new party is piggybacking on top of older, de-registered party.

May I ask, if and when the new party becomes relevant, what will be the recourse? Should it have a new page of it's own or continue on top of the existing page. Please note that they have identical names and both in same jurisdiction. If a new page has to be created for the newer party, how will it be distinguished from the older party. The wikipedia url has this part: Freedom_Party_of_British_Columbia Amrit.Birring (talk) 02:20, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

In my opinion it should have a separate page if there is no overlap between them beyond having the same name. They would be separate topics. It's always possible to put the year of founding in parentheses or some other identifying aspect to differentiate them. However I would wait until it gets a significant amount of press coverage. Dan Carkner (talk) 23:24, 28 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I am adding two references for the new party.

Can someone please help in vetting the references, and if they are legitimate, can they please be added to the page. There already exists one reference on the page, not from the ones below. Thanks!

https://www.surreynowleader.com/news/saturdays-anti-sogi-protest-in-surrey-was-a-missed-opportunity-to-educate-says-surrey-teacher/

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/03/26/surrey-protest-sogi-b-c-schools/ 184.65.167.219 (talk) 21:22, 30 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Those are reputable news sources, but I am not sure if this new party is notable enough to have a wikipedia article yet. See: Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) Dan Carkner (talk) 00:59, 1 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Adding another source of information about the 'current' Freedom Party of British Columbia to make a case for it's own entry:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/surrey-sogi-protests-1.6878496 Amrit.Birring (talk) 04:35, 16 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You can make a case by writing its own article or draft, this article here is about an unrelated party with the same name as we've said above. Dan Carkner (talk) 13:49, 18 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]