Talk:BC United/Archive 2

Archive 1

Archive 2

Old Logos

Other BC Liberal Logo

I have added another old Liberal logo thumbnail to the relevant section. Including these may be more important/helpful now given the name change. In the historical sections, it will remind readers that the party was not always known by its current name (and for most of its history was not). If anyone can find the exact dates that these logos were adopted, and discontinued that would be useful. Anyway, it seems this one is available too. I have not added it yet because I don't see a WP:RS that it was actually used, though I assume/believe it was. Not sure when though.-- Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 17:51, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Did you get that from the Election Prediction Project? That's the logo they used in 2001.-- Earl Andrew - talk 18:02, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

No, just did a file search on the project.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 18:04, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Ah. Well, if that isn't RS enough for you, that logo was used on the BC Liberal website in 2001 as well.-- Earl Andrew - talk 18:05, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Works for me.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 18:06, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Updates required given name change

We need the new logo, and may need to change the party colour used in tables, charts etc. Also need to rescue the archives which are still at Talk:British Columbia Liberal Party/Archive 1, 2, 3 etc.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 01:06, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

The colours in the tables etc should remain BC Liberal red when talking about historical events, as they were still the BC Liberals then. (There's actually some precedent here; the Austrian People's Party changed their branding from black to teal a few years back, and teal is only used in tables/charts/lists after the change, never backdated.) I'm going to propose that a new entry for United be added to Template:Canadian party colour. — Kawnhr (talk) 01:45, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

why don't we just leave this page as BC liberals and Note that they were dissolved and succeeded by BC united and have a new BC united page? Hholdenday (talk) 02:46, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

But the BC Liberal Party was not dissolved; it just changed its name. BC United isn't a legal successor, it is the same legal entity. — Kawnhr (talk) 15:45, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

What even are BC United's colors? The new logo is predominantly dark grey with a very tiny pink and teal swoop. The website seems to use pink and teal roughly equally. Maybe teal like the Austrian People's Party? MAINEiac4434 (talk) 03:45, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

I moved the talk page archive to match this main talk page. If there's another move, the mover should just move the archive and update the archive configuration at the same time. (When it's an RM that closes in favour of moving, the closer will normally take care of it.) Adumbrativus (talk) 05:26, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

I’m moving towards being in favour of splitting the article – keeping an article for the historical BC Liberal Party (a party which had participation in government for much of British Columbia's history) and creating a new, separate article for BC United.— Autospark (talk) 09:18, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Speaking of the colours, we have yet to reach a consensus as to what colours to use. Personally, I prefer we go with pink. I think we should either discuss them here or here, where a discussion has already begun. -- Earl Andrew - talk 13:25, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

i support leaving a historical liberal page and moving towards creating a new BC united page Hholdenday (talk) 15:43, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

I don't see why we should do that. BC United is not a new party, it's an existing one with a new brand. You could point to how Canadian Alliance has a separate page from Reform Party of Canada, but the CA's re-foundation was a notable and protracted development, and (at least ostensibly) a merger. That's not the case here, where the BCL simply voted to change its name, and then did. If the BC NDP and BC CCF can share a page, there's no reason the BCU and BCL can't. — Kawnhr (talk) 15:55, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Agree with Kawnhr. This was a facelift and name change, not the formation of a new party. Same leader, MLAs and policies before and after. It is not the sort of shift that would allow us to view the BC Liberals and BC United as two distinct parties, worthy of two separate articles.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 17:15, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Also agree with Kawnhr... this is noted in all sources as a name change/rebrand. The BC Liberals did not disband. The BC Liberals do not exist independent of BC United... they are BC United. —Joeyconnick (talk) 18:10, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

I also agree with Kawnhr. Rushtheeditor (talk) 00:05, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Concerning colours, I think it is safe to say we will end up using whatever most WP:RS use in their election coverage. Perhaps there is not much point discussing it too much until then.--Darryl Kerrigan (talk) 22:55, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

The party's website appears to be emphasizing teal on the homepage. However, I agree that we should wait and see what will be used more in the forthcoming election.Raellerby (talk) 14:57, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

FWIW, JP Fournier from Maclean's and 338canada.com did a Twitter poll, and pink ended up winning, so he will be using pink in his analysis.-- Earl Andrew - talk 15:11, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Perhaps we should just add United to the template with the current Liberal colour for now? It seems like a good idea to get it in there. — Kawnhr (talk) 16:08, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

I am not particularly concerned about the article's name, but I surely support the two-article option: one for the century-old BC Liberal party and one for this one. It is quite better to keep to have separate articles, for the sake of readers and history. --Checco (talk) 12:26, 16 April 2023 (UTC)