Duplicates of 2015 candidates who have stood down

[tfgg]

While dupe hunting I've found a few cases where a candidate was added as a new 2015 candidate but was subsequently stood down for some reason. Another editor then finds the original source of their candidacy and re-adds the person, not realising that they'd already been added and removed.

These are fairly easy cases to handle, since they will have the same name, and appear in the same constituency with the same sources, so you can verify that they're the same person for merger, but it is a case of data quality not necessarily increasing over time.

For example:
https://yournextmp.com/person/6109

[andylolz]

Could add a “These candidates from 2015 are known to have stood down” section (or similar)

[sjorford]

Another one:
https://yournextmp.com/person/6219
https://yournextmp.com/person/5893

[mhl]

The only complicated thing about doing this is in order to avoid doing a second query from PopIt (using the search endpoint on standing_in, say) we'd have to create a membership with the role "NotACandidate" as the converse of "Candidate", or they won't turn up in the query on posts with embedded memberships.

[tfgg]

Good example, @sjorford, RichCBury1 added him using the dailyecho source, he was deselected and no longer appears on http://www.ukipsoutheast.com/constituencies.html, and then RichCBury1 added him again using the same dailyecho source!

@mhl If it's complex to implement, I'd say it has low priority since it can be fixed by looking for dupes.

[andylolz]

Sorry – hadn’t realised it was an issue at PopIt level. “NotACandidate” doesn’t sound ideal :\

[andylolz]

Here’s a load of instances of this:

Leonie Mathers, Justine Baker, Lister Wilson, Sarah-Jane Walls, Tommy Ball, Michael Stewart, Hanna Toms, Donald Grewar, Sue Birtles, Gordon Helm, Suzanne McLaughlin, Justin Cresswell, Danny Lambert, Kathryn Anderson, Gordon Ingram, Dr Matthew O'Callaghan, Chris McEleny , Daniel Jenkins, Stephen Musgrove, Chris Matheson, Mike Champion, Jake Morrison, Sundip Meghani , Emma Ideson, Paul Tew, Lynton Yates, Tom Rubython, Barry Cooper, Christine de León