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Timeline of Brexit

I've been rewriting this article for the last couple of months in the hope of getting it to WP:FL level at some point in the future. Currently, no political timelines have yet been promoted to featured list status, and I'm hoping that, if this article is, it will set a precedent for others to follow. However, given that the list is on such a divisive subject, I thought it would be best for the article to go through the PR process before I nominate it. My main concerns are the level of detail (is it comprehensive without being indiscriminate?) and its bias (is it neutral, or does it have a recentism bias?), but I welcome any and all feedback. Thank you. A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 13:42, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

A simply change which might be helpful could be organising the years into pre-referendum, post-referendum and post withdrawal sections. At the least pre-referendum events could do with having their own section. I also wonder if their is a bit to much focus on recent changes in public opinion in the aftermath section?--Llewee (talk) 16:24, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

@Llewee: Thank you for your review. The layout of this article is based on Timeline of the Manhattan Project (currently a featured list), so the events are divided between eight Level 2 headers, one for each year. I'd be reluctant to instead divide them between just three Level 2 headers (pre-referendum, post-referendum and post-withdrawal) because one section (post-referendum) would contain something like 70% of the list. If the consensus of the community is that I should make the change then I will, but I'm not sure that it would be an improvement. As for using the most recent sources for the paragraph on public opinion, I'm not sure what the solution to that would be – I'd prefer not to remove the paragraph altogether, and obviously using outdated sources wouldn't work either. If/when public opinion evolves, then naturally I'd rewrite the text. A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 11:25, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

@A Thousand Doors: Hello, I would say on the public opinion section the issue isn't using the most recent sources its the focus on the most recent information. Pre 2022 developments are summarised while individual examples are given for the most recent polling. I suggest summarising

"Surveys conducted by YouGov found that the public felt that the UK was wrong to leave the EU by 56% to 32%, with a quarter of Brexit supporters regretting their vote.[300] Among Leave voters who regretted their decision, the most common reasons were a feeling that things had got worse since the referendum, and concerns over the economy and cost of living.[301] In January 2023, a similar poll by UnHerd and Focaldata concluded that in all but three of the Britain's 632 constituencies, a plurality of people agreed that the UK was wrong to leave the EU.[302][303] 

as something like

"Polling from various organisations suggested that most British voters regretted leaving the EU with many leave voters changing their mind.[300][302][303] One YouGov poll suggested that among Leave voters who regretted their decision, the most common reasons were a feeling that things had got worse since the referendum, and concerns over the economy and cost of living.[301]"  

You could also link the phrase "cost of living" to "2021–present United Kingdom cost-of-living crisis" for the benefit of readers outside the UK.

On the issue of headings, I think it would undoubtedly be helpful to group pre referendum events into their own section. It might be best to have a pre-referendum section and then keep the year by year structure for later events. My concern with the current structure is that it creates the initial impression that withdrawing from the EU was a policy pursued by the UK government from 2013 onwards.--Llewee (talk) 12:51, 1 June 2023 (UTC)

@Llewee: Thank you for your feedback, I've made the changes you've suggested. Please let me know if they match what you were thinking. I've kept the Level 3 year headers in the "Pre-referendum" section, because the dates don't otherwise have the years in them, and obviously readers need to know in which year an event took place. Thanks, A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 16:17, 1 June 2023 (UTC)