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Merger discussion

The byelection was not a consequential event to merits its own page. The results are already posted here, and any context can be inserted here. Milton Chan (talk) 00:25, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. By-elections all around the world, even at the sub-national level haven proven to be notable. There's no reason this one is any different. -- Earl Andrew - talk 15:54, 25 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose, the reason behind why the by-election happened can be notable. Also, some ridings might have multiple byelection in different year. Techie3 (talk) 11:21, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose No other electoral district article has this type of information. IMO the byelection article has met the General Notability Guideline under WP:Notability and should remain. Legend of 14 (talk) 18:20, 21 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. There's historically been a debate on Wikipedia between whether by-elections each need their own standalone article or should be handled as one omnibus "By-elections to the ## [Relevant Legislature]" article — but it is never standard practice to summarily redirect a by-election to our article about the district that the by-election was held in, because that would add extra content (like the candidate and polling stuff) that would give the by-election disproportionately WP:UNDUE weight over and above any of the regular elections.
Canadian by-election articles do now get more attention than they used to — there's more effort expended into writing more than just "by-election happened, results table, the end" than there used to be, and more effort expended into ensuring that the articles are actually sourced than there used to be, so there's a stronger basis for standalone articles now than there was 10 years ago. UK by-elections and US special elections also very routinely have their own standalone articles rather than being redirected, although I can't speak with authority on what is or isn't done in other countries besides those.
But even if you still believe that they should be redirected instead of having standalone articles, the appropriate target would be an omnibus article treating all by-elections to the 43rd Parliament of Ontario as collective topic that remained separate from the individual electoral districts, not the electoral district articles themselves. And it would have to merge all of the by-election articles in Category:43rd Parliament of Ontario, not just this one, because there's no basis for treating this one as uniquely less notable than the 2023 by-elections that you didn't propose for redirection. Either they all get merged into one omnibus By-elections to the 43rd Parliament of Ontario article or they all get standalone articles, and there are no "some are more notable than others" grey areas in between those two things. Bearcat (talk) 17:38, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]