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The article gives the TNA as one of the contesting parties, but the election results make no mention of the TNA, but only its constituent party ITAK. Any thoughts on this? - ක - ( talk) 04:40, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
Several editors, e.g. Tharumaxx and Jesuschristonacamel, have started adding results without providing any sources, violating Wikipedia's core content policies. I was very tempted to remove the entire Results section.
There are no official national results because of the problems the Election Commission faced on election night. There are few media sources, e.g. Daily Mirror, Ada Derana, but they give different results. If, like me, you have gone through the individual paperwork filled out by election officials (available at news.lk), you will see that there were many errors. The new electoral system has confused many of these officials and they have filled them out in all sorts of manner, which makes interpreting them difficult.
As an encyclopedia we need to provide reliable information, not just use the first source we find just to populate an article. The Election Commission will provide an official results book at the end of this month which can be used to update this article. Until then all the results need to be removed - they are wrong.-- Obi2canibe ( talk) 22:48, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
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The article gives the TNA as one of the contesting parties, but the election results make no mention of the TNA, but only its constituent party ITAK. Any thoughts on this? - ක - ( talk) 04:40, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
Several editors, e.g. Tharumaxx and Jesuschristonacamel, have started adding results without providing any sources, violating Wikipedia's core content policies. I was very tempted to remove the entire Results section.
There are no official national results because of the problems the Election Commission faced on election night. There are few media sources, e.g. Daily Mirror, Ada Derana, but they give different results. If, like me, you have gone through the individual paperwork filled out by election officials (available at news.lk), you will see that there were many errors. The new electoral system has confused many of these officials and they have filled them out in all sorts of manner, which makes interpreting them difficult.
As an encyclopedia we need to provide reliable information, not just use the first source we find just to populate an article. The Election Commission will provide an official results book at the end of this month which can be used to update this article. Until then all the results need to be removed - they are wrong.-- Obi2canibe ( talk) 22:48, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for speedy deletion:
You can see the reason for deletion at the file description page linked above. — Community Tech bot ( talk) 14:22, 29 March 2022 (UTC)