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Doesn't seem like a disambiguation page to me... Wouter Lievens 20:53, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
There's a note about discussions of majority as applied to parliamentary procedure being beyond the scope of the article, a little ways down from where it's discussed (and where it was discussed before I expanded the discussion). Which is it? Jay Maynard 22:33, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
There is a recent creep in American usage to majority being "the bulk", in speaking for instance of "a majority of the water"; but this is not in Webster, where it is implicit that "majority" is a countable and therefore integer number. Clearly the "majority of water" is a pomposity for "most of the water", and should be discouraged on grounds of style as well as erring.
I added the definitions of majority from RONR and TSC.
For the record Wimpy the Gerbil came in second in the Undergraduate Student Government elections at the Pennsylvania State University in 1981-82. He beat the human candidate endorse by the Collegian student newspaper.
If someone can fix my citations, go ahead.
-- J. J. in PA 07:08, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
The normal misstatement is "one more than half."
J. J. in PA 17:16, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
It's been proposed to merge this article with Simple majority, which is an article on a voting system, not on the mathematical concept of majority. I've discussed this at Talk:Simple majority#New merge proposal: to Majority. -- Abd ( talk) 21:00, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
Overall majority redirects to this article, but the term wasn't mentioned at all - I've added a definition and example to the lead. Tevildo ( talk) 11:24, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
Can't we do better than this Tennessee example? It might be great for an article on some other topic, but I don't see how this could possibly be the best example for explaining what a majority is. I know this with certainty because the example never arrives at what the majority is voting for. The closest it comes to "illuminating" is what the last choice of the majority is. And that, by the way, is a concept that is not explained anywhere else in the article. For this situation to be an actually example of a majority, the scenario would need to be a vote to down-select the number of choices for the capital.
What I like least about the example is that Memphis does not appear to be all that much farther away from Nashville than, say, Knoxville is.-- ChrisfromHouston ( talk) 18:25, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
I know that there are other different types of "majority", depending on whether the majority is of all cast ballots, majority of quorum present, or majority of eligible voters. Came to this page looking for proper terminology. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.175.128.1 ( talk) 16:49, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
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The section on 50%+1 says that methods is erroneous but then says that if you always round down in odd number situations then it works OK in both even and odd number situations to determine if you have a majority. Thus it seems to me that the example is only sometimes erroneous assuming you didn’t apply an always round down rule. Unless there is someone who can present an argument as to why it’s still erroneous even with rounding down then I will change it to reflect the fact it can sometimes be applied in an erroneous way if you round up but if always rounding down then it works. Notcharliechaplin ( talk) 16:11, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
This page says majority is defined as more than half a total, however the OED says it is just the largest fraction (synonymous with plurality), why is this and why does “Robert’s rules” overrule the dictionary? Bean guy2 ( talk) 20:15, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
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Doesn't seem like a disambiguation page to me... Wouter Lievens 20:53, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
There's a note about discussions of majority as applied to parliamentary procedure being beyond the scope of the article, a little ways down from where it's discussed (and where it was discussed before I expanded the discussion). Which is it? Jay Maynard 22:33, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
There is a recent creep in American usage to majority being "the bulk", in speaking for instance of "a majority of the water"; but this is not in Webster, where it is implicit that "majority" is a countable and therefore integer number. Clearly the "majority of water" is a pomposity for "most of the water", and should be discouraged on grounds of style as well as erring.
I added the definitions of majority from RONR and TSC.
For the record Wimpy the Gerbil came in second in the Undergraduate Student Government elections at the Pennsylvania State University in 1981-82. He beat the human candidate endorse by the Collegian student newspaper.
If someone can fix my citations, go ahead.
-- J. J. in PA 07:08, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
The normal misstatement is "one more than half."
J. J. in PA 17:16, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
It's been proposed to merge this article with Simple majority, which is an article on a voting system, not on the mathematical concept of majority. I've discussed this at Talk:Simple majority#New merge proposal: to Majority. -- Abd ( talk) 21:00, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
Overall majority redirects to this article, but the term wasn't mentioned at all - I've added a definition and example to the lead. Tevildo ( talk) 11:24, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
Can't we do better than this Tennessee example? It might be great for an article on some other topic, but I don't see how this could possibly be the best example for explaining what a majority is. I know this with certainty because the example never arrives at what the majority is voting for. The closest it comes to "illuminating" is what the last choice of the majority is. And that, by the way, is a concept that is not explained anywhere else in the article. For this situation to be an actually example of a majority, the scenario would need to be a vote to down-select the number of choices for the capital.
What I like least about the example is that Memphis does not appear to be all that much farther away from Nashville than, say, Knoxville is.-- ChrisfromHouston ( talk) 18:25, 7 October 2013 (UTC)
I know that there are other different types of "majority", depending on whether the majority is of all cast ballots, majority of quorum present, or majority of eligible voters. Came to this page looking for proper terminology. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.175.128.1 ( talk) 16:49, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
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The section on 50%+1 says that methods is erroneous but then says that if you always round down in odd number situations then it works OK in both even and odd number situations to determine if you have a majority. Thus it seems to me that the example is only sometimes erroneous assuming you didn’t apply an always round down rule. Unless there is someone who can present an argument as to why it’s still erroneous even with rounding down then I will change it to reflect the fact it can sometimes be applied in an erroneous way if you round up but if always rounding down then it works. Notcharliechaplin ( talk) 16:11, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
This page says majority is defined as more than half a total, however the OED says it is just the largest fraction (synonymous with plurality), why is this and why does “Robert’s rules” overrule the dictionary? Bean guy2 ( talk) 20:15, 2 July 2024 (UTC)