Talk:UK Conservative Party loses two seats in by-elections, retains former PM Johnson's

OR

Hi, the extent of my OR for this article was an email exchange with Amanda Milling (my local MP)'s office manager Robert Pritchard. I'll forward the full email to User:Heavy Water. Ash Thawley (talk) (calendar) 14:10, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Asheiou, you might want to remove that transcript, there's a confidentiality disclaimer in there. We used to forward stuff to scoopwn-reporters [dot] org, a private mailing list of reviewers on Acagastya's wn-reporters domain, but there's been some confusion over what the situation is with it, and more importantly, the people on scoop tend to be the least active — there are five, if I recall correctly — though Cromium was active just yesterday. Alternatively, you could forward the thread directly to a reviewer. Heavy Water (talk) 16:19, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Can I email it you? Ash Thawley (talk) (calendar) 20:02, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

OK, sure. Though note the EmailUser function doesn't permit forwarding, which we generally prefer for OR documentation; my email's listed on here. Heavy Water (talk) 21:02, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

done ^^ Ash Thawley (talk) (calendar) 13:13, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

Review of revision 4738245 [Not ready]

Revision 4738245 of this article has been reviewed by Heavy Water (talk · contribs) and found not ready at 20:27, 22 July 2023 (UTC). Copyright: Not reviewed. Please address other issues. Newsworthiness: Passed Verifiability: Not ready: Only one source mentions the focal event. We need at least two. The OR exception obviously doesn't apply here. NPOV: Not reviewed. Please address other issues. Style: Not reviewed. Please address other issues. Comments by reviewer: @Asheiou: Hope you haven't left yet. Questions about the above? Ask. If possible, please address the above issues then resubmit the article for another review (by replacing {{tasks}} in the article with {{review}}). This talk page will be updated with subsequent reviews.

Revision 4738245 of this article has been reviewed by Heavy Water (talk · contribs) and found not ready at 20:27, 22 July 2023 (UTC). Copyright: Not reviewed. Please address other issues. Newsworthiness: Passed Verifiability: Not ready: Only one source mentions the focal event. We need at least two. The OR exception obviously doesn't apply here. NPOV: Not reviewed. Please address other issues. Style: Not reviewed. Please address other issues. Comments by reviewer: @Asheiou: Hope you haven't left yet. Questions about the above? Ask. If possible, please address the above issues then resubmit the article for another review (by replacing {{tasks}} in the article with {{review}}). This talk page will be updated with subsequent reviews.

Review of revision 4739262 [Not ready]

Revision 4739262 of this article has been reviewed by Heavy Water (talk · contribs) and found not ready at 16:59, 27 July 2023 (UTC). Copyright: Not reviewed. Please address other issues. Newsworthiness: Passed Verifiability: Not ready: In that I can't verify the "when" of the election from these sources, and can't cut it without the article breaking style rules in place with good reason. NPOV: Not reviewed. Please address other issues. Style: Not reviewed. Please address other issues. Comments by reviewer: I suppose I shouldn't ping you as you're on wikibreak. Questions about the above? Ask. If possible, please address the above issues then resubmit the article for another review (by replacing {{tasks}} in the article with {{review}}). This talk page will be updated with subsequent reviews.

Revision 4739262 of this article has been reviewed by Heavy Water (talk · contribs) and found not ready at 16:59, 27 July 2023 (UTC). Copyright: Not reviewed. Please address other issues. Newsworthiness: Passed Verifiability: Not ready: In that I can't verify the "when" of the election from these sources, and can't cut it without the article breaking style rules in place with good reason. NPOV: Not reviewed. Please address other issues. Style: Not reviewed. Please address other issues. Comments by reviewer: I suppose I shouldn't ping you as you're on wikibreak. Questions about the above? Ask. If possible, please address the above issues then resubmit the article for another review (by replacing {{tasks}} in the article with {{review}}). This talk page will be updated with subsequent reviews.

Date source

Hi @Heavy Water, I added a parliament source that gives the date. I'm just trying to follow this article through to its publication, and I have one more that I'm waiting on an interview for that may be written next week. Ash Thawley (talk) (calendar) 15:56, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

Downstyle-acronymed Ulez

Just to further something stated by @Heavy Water in their most recent edit summary, a lot of reputable news outlets in the UK will downstyle Ulez^link[1][2]. I'm not sure of the exact reason this is done, but it may be because of the /'u:lɛz/ pronunciation rather than it being /ju:.ɛl.i:.zɛd/. I was just replicating this style choice ^^ Ash Thawley (talk) (calendar) 23:54, 28 July 2023 (UTC)

Review of revision 4739456 [Passed]

Revision 4739456 of this article has been reviewed by Heavy Water (talk · contribs) and has passed its review at 05:44, 30 July 2023 (UTC). Copyright: Passed Newsworthiness: Passed Verifiability: Passed NPOV: Passed Style: Passed Comments by reviewer: The OR here is minimal (being basically a declaration of the absence of OR) and somewhat dated (as Milling's office declined the interview before the results came in). I would understand any other reviewer deciding to knock this back on the grounds the OR fails to preserve the article's freshness. I'm being extremely lenient with this article by publishing ten days after the focal event, considering that, and I'm nervous about whether it is OK to do so. I would also understand any other review not-readying on the basis of editing being needed, with insufficient distance from sources and widespread use of the passive voice presenting problems; see the edit history. The reviewed revision should automatically have been edited by removing {{Review}} and adding {{Publish}} at the bottom, and the edit sighted; if this did not happen, it may be done manually by a reviewer.

Revision 4739456 of this article has been reviewed by Heavy Water (talk · contribs) and has passed its review at 05:44, 30 July 2023 (UTC). Copyright: Passed Newsworthiness: Passed Verifiability: Passed NPOV: Passed Style: Passed Comments by reviewer: The OR here is minimal (being basically a declaration of the absence of OR) and somewhat dated (as Milling's office declined the interview before the results came in). I would understand any other reviewer deciding to knock this back on the grounds the OR fails to preserve the article's freshness. I'm being extremely lenient with this article by publishing ten days after the focal event, considering that, and I'm nervous about whether it is OK to do so. I would also understand any other review not-readying on the basis of editing being needed, with insufficient distance from sources and widespread use of the passive voice presenting problems; see the edit history. The reviewed revision should automatically have been edited by removing {{Review}} and adding {{Publish}} at the bottom, and the edit sighted; if this did not happen, it may be done manually by a reviewer.