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Re my removal of italics and Number 57's reversion ...
MOS:ITALICS says "Italics ... are used for various specific purposes in Wikipedia, outlined below" and then lists the specific purposes, which does not include "future dates". I think that by implication this means that in general italics ought not be used for other purposes, otherwise what's the point of having MOS:ITALICS at all? Mitch Ames ( talk) 02:54, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
See also: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Text formatting#Explicitly limit italics usage. Mitch Ames ( talk) 03:06, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
This could end up as WP:LAME. Why use italics at all? A reader has to know what it means. Why not just say say exactly what the info is with superscript or something, and the whole issue just disappears?
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|name = Western Australian elections
|state = {{{state|autocollapse}}}
|title = {{flagicon|Western Australia}} [[List of Western Australian Legislative Assembly elections|Elections and referendums in Western Australia]]
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|group1 = [[Parliament of Western Australia|General elections]]
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*[[Western Australian state election, 2008|2008]]
*[[Western Australian state election, 2013|2013]]
*''{{finedetail |[[Western Australian state election, 2017|20]]17|To be held DD MMM}}''
*[[List of Western Australian state by-elections|by-elections]]
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*[[Western Australian Legislative Council election, 1896|1896]]
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*[[Western Australian Legislative Council election, 1898|1898]]
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This seems to be common practice in these infoboxes— I suggest that listing an ocean as a suburb is not a good idea because an ocean is not a suburb/lga per Description column of Template:Infobox Australian place#Parameters and "Suburbs" displayed for type=suburb. If we really want to list the ocean in the navbox, then the navbox should be "fixed" first so it doesn't say "suburb". Mitch Ames ( talk) 13:00, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
If we want to indicate that a particular entry in the list of elections is in the future, why don't we just say so explicitly, ie:
This makes it clear and explicit, without the reader needing guess what the italics means. At any point in time there should only be one such entry per group, so clutter ought not be a problem. Mitch Ames ( talk) 13:07, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
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Re my removal of italics and Number 57's reversion ...
MOS:ITALICS says "Italics ... are used for various specific purposes in Wikipedia, outlined below" and then lists the specific purposes, which does not include "future dates". I think that by implication this means that in general italics ought not be used for other purposes, otherwise what's the point of having MOS:ITALICS at all? Mitch Ames ( talk) 02:54, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
See also: Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Text formatting#Explicitly limit italics usage. Mitch Ames ( talk) 03:06, 19 January 2017 (UTC)
This could end up as WP:LAME. Why use italics at all? A reader has to know what it means. Why not just say say exactly what the info is with superscript or something, and the whole issue just disappears?
{{Navbox
|name = Western Australian elections
|state = {{{state|autocollapse}}}
|title = {{flagicon|Western Australia}} [[List of Western Australian Legislative Assembly elections|Elections and referendums in Western Australia]]
|listclass = hlist
|group1 = [[Parliament of Western Australia|General elections]]
|list1 =
*[[Western Australian state election, 2008|2008]]
*[[Western Australian state election, 2013|2013]]
*''{{finedetail |[[Western Australian state election, 2017|20]]17|To be held DD MMM}}''
*[[List of Western Australian state by-elections|by-elections]]
|group2 = [[Western Australian Legislative Council|Upper House elections]]
|list2 =
*[[Western Australian Legislative Council election, 1894|1894]]
*[[Western Australian Legislative Council election, 1896|1896]]
*[[Western Australian Legislative Council election, 1897|1897]]
*[[Western Australian Legislative Council election, 1898|1898]]
|group3 = Referendums
|list3 =
*[[Western Australian daylight saving referendum, 1984|1984]]
*[[Western Australian daylight saving referendum, 1992|1992]]
*[[Western Australian retail trading hours referendum, 2005|2005]]
*[[Western Australian daylight saving referendum, 2009|2009]]
}}
This seems to be common practice in these infoboxes— I suggest that listing an ocean as a suburb is not a good idea because an ocean is not a suburb/lga per Description column of Template:Infobox Australian place#Parameters and "Suburbs" displayed for type=suburb. If we really want to list the ocean in the navbox, then the navbox should be "fixed" first so it doesn't say "suburb". Mitch Ames ( talk) 13:00, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
If we want to indicate that a particular entry in the list of elections is in the future, why don't we just say so explicitly, ie:
This makes it clear and explicit, without the reader needing guess what the italics means. At any point in time there should only be one such entry per group, so clutter ought not be a problem. Mitch Ames ( talk) 13:07, 22 January 2017 (UTC)