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Semi-protected edit request on 5 August 2024

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Not sure why these are only categories, there being no mention in the article at all, but I doubt 'English libertarians' and 'Christian libertarians' are appropriate (and, if they are, then reference them, but then that usually is within articles, not just in categories) - he's fascist, regardless of whether people want to include that here despite there being lots of references for it (and, oh, he's currently instigating riots... which is totally libertarian, or not...) - really wish people would stop misusing it for its opposite... 92.18.126.226 (talk) 00:43, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Done M.Bitton (talk) 10:51, 6 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 11 August 2024

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Ok, the statement that "At the 2014 EP election, UKIP won the most seats in the UK, pressuring David Cameron to call the 2016 EU membership referendum" is hilarious but also wildly misleading.


The second part of the lead section detailing Farage's election results mixes domestic and European elections, which is obscured by the bizarre abbreviation of European Parliament to EP, resulting in wildly misleading sentences like "At the 2014 EP election, UKIP won the most seats in the UK".

EP is not a common abbreviation for European Parliament in the UK (the EP disambiguation pages lists over a hundred meanings) and as the quoted sentence is sandwiched between sentences about the general election (the one that most people have heard of), it seems a deliberate attempt to imply that UKIP have ever won a domestic election - or at best, to hide the fact that they've never won a single seat.

Obviously, I propose removing the EP abbreviation, which I think most people assume is a type of record, and separating the domestic from European election results.

(This is presumably related to the fact that the UKIP Wikipedia page [UKIP] lead is full of unsourced claims like the fantastic general election results they got in 2013 and 2015 - how on earth was this allowed?) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moubliezpas (talkcontribs) 11:08, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You are correct that EP is a WP:NEOLOGISM that simply isn't used by anyone, and I've changed that. However I see nothing wrong with putting the facts in chronological order that he lost in general elections and his party did better in European elections. The page David Cameron, for example, doesn't separate elections/referendums by which he succeeded in, and not. Unknown Temptation (talk) 22:52, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The redirect Farage riots has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 October 6 § Farage riots until a consensus is reached. Jay 💬 08:51, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]