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Is the marble voting method supposed to be a secret ballot system? In the cited BBC video that depicts the method, I notice that:
— BarrelProof ( talk) 22:33, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Some sources say that the Independent Coalition of Parties (ICP) consisted of seven parties, and some say it consisted of eight parties. Why do different sources report a different number? Did an eighth party join later? I think the article should explicitly list the parties in the coalition. It would also be nice to provide more detail about how the coalition was formed and how and why it selected Adama Barrow as its candidate. — BarrelProof ( talk) 20:47, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
The article should say more about Mammah Kandeh and the Gambia Democratic Congress. Currently, we have no information about Kandeh's campaign or why the GDC did not join the coalition. Kandeh received 17% of the vote, which is a significant amount. We should provide some information about what may have motivated those people. — BarrelProof ( talk) 20:57, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
We've been around in circles a few times on the phrasing of the first sentence, which says "Presidential elections were held in the Gambia on 1 December 2016." That seems incorrect to me. As far as I know, only one presidential election was held in the Gambia on 1 December 2016. Is that plural form some sort of colloquial expression? — BarrelProof ( talk) 22:42, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
The article is currently citing three pages (for Kandeh, [1] Barrow, [2] and Jammeh [3]) on the IEC website when describing the candidates and the dates on which their candidacy was registered. When I look at those three pages, I notice that they say almost nothing. For example, they don't mention political party affiliations at all. They basically only provide the name of the candidate, a picture, and a date. I seem to remember that there might have been more on those pages previously than there is now, but I'm not sure about that. It would also seem simpler, and provide the same information, if we instead just cited the IEC's list of candidates instead of those three separate pages. The date on the page about Barrow (10 Nov.) is also different from the date described in the article when citing it (9 Nov.). Are those citations helpful? Should we replace them with a citation to the list of candidates? Should we remove them? Should we change the date described for Barrow? — BarrelProof ( talk) 18:29, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
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This article needs to be split - especially in relation to the aftermath of the election and the ongoing constitutional crisis in The Gambia. - ( 119.224.80.18 ( talk) 06:10, 12 January 2017 (UTC))
A news item involving 2016 Gambian presidential election was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 6 December 2016. |
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Is the marble voting method supposed to be a secret ballot system? In the cited BBC video that depicts the method, I notice that:
— BarrelProof ( talk) 22:33, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
Some sources say that the Independent Coalition of Parties (ICP) consisted of seven parties, and some say it consisted of eight parties. Why do different sources report a different number? Did an eighth party join later? I think the article should explicitly list the parties in the coalition. It would also be nice to provide more detail about how the coalition was formed and how and why it selected Adama Barrow as its candidate. — BarrelProof ( talk) 20:47, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
The article should say more about Mammah Kandeh and the Gambia Democratic Congress. Currently, we have no information about Kandeh's campaign or why the GDC did not join the coalition. Kandeh received 17% of the vote, which is a significant amount. We should provide some information about what may have motivated those people. — BarrelProof ( talk) 20:57, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
We've been around in circles a few times on the phrasing of the first sentence, which says "Presidential elections were held in the Gambia on 1 December 2016." That seems incorrect to me. As far as I know, only one presidential election was held in the Gambia on 1 December 2016. Is that plural form some sort of colloquial expression? — BarrelProof ( talk) 22:42, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
The article is currently citing three pages (for Kandeh, [1] Barrow, [2] and Jammeh [3]) on the IEC website when describing the candidates and the dates on which their candidacy was registered. When I look at those three pages, I notice that they say almost nothing. For example, they don't mention political party affiliations at all. They basically only provide the name of the candidate, a picture, and a date. I seem to remember that there might have been more on those pages previously than there is now, but I'm not sure about that. It would also seem simpler, and provide the same information, if we instead just cited the IEC's list of candidates instead of those three separate pages. The date on the page about Barrow (10 Nov.) is also different from the date described in the article when citing it (9 Nov.). Are those citations helpful? Should we replace them with a citation to the list of candidates? Should we remove them? Should we change the date described for Barrow? — BarrelProof ( talk) 18:29, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
References
This article needs to be split - especially in relation to the aftermath of the election and the ongoing constitutional crisis in The Gambia. - ( 119.224.80.18 ( talk) 06:10, 12 January 2017 (UTC))