Talk:List of members of the Canadian House of Commons (A)

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Table format

I'd like to propose that these lists be reorganized in a table format rather than the current text list. To review how that might work, I've organized the first five names from the A list into a trial table for discussion.

	Party	Electoral district	Term	Notes
Anthony Abbott	Liberal	Mississauga, Ontario	1974 - 1979
Douglas Abbott	Liberal	St. Antoine—Westmount, Quebec	1940 - 1954
Jim Abbott	Conservative	Kootenay East, British Columbia	1993 - present	Reform 1993 - 2000; Canadian Alliance 2000 - 2003
John Abbott	Liberal-Conservative	Argenteuil, Quebec	1867 - 1874; 1880 - 1887	served as Prime Minister 1891 - 1892 from a seat in the Senate
Diane Ablonczy	Conservative	Calgary North, Alberta	1993 - present	Reform 1993 - 2000; Canadian Alliance 2000 - 2003

Just among these five names, some of the main issues raised by this type of organization are already highlighted:

How should we handle people (Jim Abbott, Diane Ablonczy) whose party affiliation changed during their term in Parliament? Would we use the colour of their original affiliation? The colour of their last one? Have a separate listing for each different affiliation? Have a separate colour to denote party affiliation changes, and use the notes column to elucidate?
How about people (John Abbott) who served non-consecutive terms in Parliament?

Any discussion and input would be appreciated. Bearcat 00:47, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Here's how it looks in wikitable format:

Name	Party	Electoral district	Term	Notes
Douglas Abbott	Liberal	St. Antoine—Westmount, Quebec	1940 - 1954
Anthony Abbott	Liberal	Mississauga, Ontario	1974 - 1979
Jim Abbott	Conservative	Kootenay East, British Columbia	1993 - present	Reform 1993 - 2000; Canadian Alliance 2000 - 2003
John Abbott	Liberal-Conservative	Argenteuil, Quebec	1867 - 1874; 1880 - 1887	served as Prime Minister 1891 - 1892 from a seat in the Senate
Diane Ablonczy	Conservative	Calgary North, Alberta	1993 - present	Reform 1993 - 2000; Canadian Alliance 2000 - 2003

I think one row per member, as this is a list of members, not a list of terms. Multiple colours (e.g. top half red, bottom half blue) if they changed parties? –Pomte 14:05, 12 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think date ranges with breaks should be expressed as above: 1867-1874; 1880-1887 states unambiguously when the individual represented their constituents in Parliament. Also, I would omit the party colours, and list the last party affiliation for that individual, using the Notes section to elaborate. Pomte's wikitable looks cleaner, but I'd left-justify the headers.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mindmatrix (talk • contribs).

How do you propose to deal with multiple ridings? The Tom 02:40, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

We could simply have a second line within the same row (using <br> et al). Like so:

Name	Party	Electoral district	Term	Notes
Douglas Abbott	Liberal	St. Antoine—Westmount, Quebec	1940 - 1954
Anthony Abbott	Liberal	Mississauga, Ontario	1974 - 1979
Jim Abbott	Conservative	Kootenay East, British Columbia	1993 - present	Reform 1993 - 2000; Canadian Alliance 2000 - 2003
John Abbott	Liberal-Conservative	Argenteuil, Quebec A different Argenteuil	1867 - 1874 1880 - 1887	served as Prime Minister 1891 - 1892 from a seat in the Senate
Diane Ablonczy	Conservative	Calgary North, Alberta	1993 - present	Reform 1993 - 2000; Canadian Alliance 2000 - 2003

The text should probably align at the top, of course. I suppose we could do this for other data also (eg - party affiliation) to be consistent. Mind matrix 13:13, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sources?

What is source for any of this? There are possibly thousands of names here with no source. Can any name get added? Many of these are in the big BLPunreferenced issue for Wikipedia. Should this all be deleted? There is no source. --doncram (talk) 02:31, 24 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/SenatorsMembers.asp?Language=E . Why on earth would you think that any random name could possibly get added to a list of members of a national legislature? Bearcat (talk) 02:07, 31 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]