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Hi Joe, My name is Emanuele Lombardi, I'm new to wikipedia and I would like to ask you a question about the way it works.
A few days ago (Aug 4th) I added to the Wiki page "Electronic_voting" an external link to my site http://www.electronic-vote.org where I write my reasons against electronic vote.
I wrote the following description of the site "We, the people, should pretend to use ballot papers since electronic elections are out of any democratic control". You have changed it to "www.electronic-vote.org. Site apparently the work of Emanuele Lombardi, according to [1]"
I'm not complaining about the change, but I would like to know which are the rules to follow when writing such things, just in case I'll edit some other Wiki pages in the future.
Thank you very much from Italy, Lele
Hi Joe, thanks for the explanation about the external link label I wrote.
I simply meant to show the basic idea of the linked site just like the label of the following link:
Anyway, do you think the following label is acceptable?
Apart the label of the external link I would like to modify the following period of the Overview:
"By contrast, in a paperless system, voters must have faith in the accuracy of the counting software."
I would change it into:
"By contrast, in a paperless system, voters must have faith in the accuracy, honesty and security of the whole electoral apparatus (people, software and hardware) because without tangible proofs of electors’ will, no democratic control is possible over elections."
Do you think it is an acceptable modification? Would it be necessary to define "democratic control" in a new Wiki page?
Thank you very much from Italy,
Lele Talk 12:50, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
I agree with your remarks about the external link (I would have titled my site "electronic vote OR democracy").
"tangible proof of electors' will" is a (probably obscure) way to say "ballot papers or any other physical, tangible proof of what each elector actually voted for".
"democratic control" is the control that common, ordinary people exercises over its representatives: how they are elected and how they behave when sitting in governments and parliaments. I define democratic control in my web site against e-vote.
Given the above definitions I stated
Anyway it's enough for me to end the period where you stopped it:
"By contrast, in a paperless system, voters must have faith in the accuracy, honesty and security of the whole electoral apparatus (people, software and hardware)."
Can I modify the page, now?
Do you feel I can open a new wiki page about democratic_control with the definition taken from my web site?
Thank you very much for your help (and patience), Emanuele
Lele 12:43, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
Monitoring is not a good term either, it is normally used to describe monitoring of elections. There are four separate issues in your addition , that is the problem...
These four issues should be split, for clarity. The issue of direct versus representative democracy needs more emphasis, but there is a separate article. Ruzmanci 09:50, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
I noticed you were new, and wanted to share some links I thought useful:
For more information click here. You can sign your name by typing 4 tildes, like this: ~~~~.
Hi Joe, My name is Emanuele Lombardi, I'm new to wikipedia and I would like to ask you a question about the way it works.
A few days ago (Aug 4th) I added to the Wiki page "Electronic_voting" an external link to my site http://www.electronic-vote.org where I write my reasons against electronic vote.
I wrote the following description of the site "We, the people, should pretend to use ballot papers since electronic elections are out of any democratic control". You have changed it to "www.electronic-vote.org. Site apparently the work of Emanuele Lombardi, according to [1]"
I'm not complaining about the change, but I would like to know which are the rules to follow when writing such things, just in case I'll edit some other Wiki pages in the future.
Thank you very much from Italy, Lele
Hi Joe, thanks for the explanation about the external link label I wrote.
I simply meant to show the basic idea of the linked site just like the label of the following link:
Anyway, do you think the following label is acceptable?
Apart the label of the external link I would like to modify the following period of the Overview:
"By contrast, in a paperless system, voters must have faith in the accuracy of the counting software."
I would change it into:
"By contrast, in a paperless system, voters must have faith in the accuracy, honesty and security of the whole electoral apparatus (people, software and hardware) because without tangible proofs of electors’ will, no democratic control is possible over elections."
Do you think it is an acceptable modification? Would it be necessary to define "democratic control" in a new Wiki page?
Thank you very much from Italy,
Lele Talk 12:50, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
I agree with your remarks about the external link (I would have titled my site "electronic vote OR democracy").
"tangible proof of electors' will" is a (probably obscure) way to say "ballot papers or any other physical, tangible proof of what each elector actually voted for".
"democratic control" is the control that common, ordinary people exercises over its representatives: how they are elected and how they behave when sitting in governments and parliaments. I define democratic control in my web site against e-vote.
Given the above definitions I stated
Anyway it's enough for me to end the period where you stopped it:
"By contrast, in a paperless system, voters must have faith in the accuracy, honesty and security of the whole electoral apparatus (people, software and hardware)."
Can I modify the page, now?
Do you feel I can open a new wiki page about democratic_control with the definition taken from my web site?
Thank you very much for your help (and patience), Emanuele
Lele 12:43, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
Monitoring is not a good term either, it is normally used to describe monitoring of elections. There are four separate issues in your addition , that is the problem...
These four issues should be split, for clarity. The issue of direct versus representative democracy needs more emphasis, but there is a separate article. Ruzmanci 09:50, 19 August 2005 (UTC)