Talk:Virtual House of Commons

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Did you know... that on 22 April 2020, the UK House of Commons met virtually for the first time in its 700-year history due to the COVID-19 pandemic?

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The result was: promoted by The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 06:56, 23 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that on 22 April 2020, the United Kingdom's House of Commons met virtually for the first time in its 700-year history due to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic? Source:[1] [2]
- ALT1:... that due to new measures to combat the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, only 50 MPs are allowed in the United Kingdom's House of Commons chamber at a time? Source: [3] [4]
- ALT2:... that Welsh health minister Vaughan Gething once swore at a colleague during a virtual session of the Welsh Assembly? Source:[5]
- ALT3:... that TV screens were placed around the United Kingdom's House of Commons so that MPs who were participating remotely due to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic could be seen by other members? Source: [6] [7]

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Created by PinkPanda272 (talk). Self-nominated at 14:21, 28 April 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Minor comment: the UK should probably be mentioned somewhere in ALT1. — MarkH₂₁^talk 17:07, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

MarkH21 Fixed, thanks for the comment PinkPanda272 (talk/contribs) 17:28, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Y Article is long enough (7427 characters), new enough (created 27 April, nominated 28 April), and article is mostly within policy (except issue highlighted below). Earwig copyvio says 16.7%, but the only text matches are on names of organisations, so no actual copyvios
? In the "In foreign legislatures" section, there is no source for France, Spain or the US lacking - none of them are in [8], the only source in that section. Please add sources for this information, or remove it entirely
Y ALT0 and ALT1 are both interesting, short enough, and well cited (figures for ALT0 are in [9] and for ALT1 are in [10]. ALT2 is not at all interesting- people swear all the time- and ALT3 is less interesting in my opinion
Y QPQ done
PinkPanda272 Please can you address the couple of uncited lines of text? Then will be good to go. Joseph2302 (talk) 18:21, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Joseph2302: Thanks for the review, I have cited the paragraph in question. It did include information about France, but the piece about the US Senate was taken from a different article that I forgot to reference. You are right about ALT2, it isn't as interesting as the others. PinkPanda272 (talk/contribs) 07:01, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for sourcing that. Now good to go. Joseph2302 (talk) 17:41, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Are there plans for a similar article on the upper house's experience? Robin S. Taylor (talk) 20:19, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Robin S. Taylor - I guess it might warrant an article in its own right, although currently most news coverage is directed at the Virtual Commons aspect. I am considering writing a 'List of Parliamentary responses to Covid-19' or similar to compile the various situations worldwide (or at least in Europe), so a section of that (if and when I get round to writing it) could be dedicated to Lords coverage if it doesn't warrant a separate article. PinkPanda272 (talk/contribs) 20:47, 13 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]