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So, for all who are interested in this, a few questions:
Please bear with me, this is my first WikiProject I'm founding here. ;) Take care, — Nightst a llion (?) 10:31, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
The first image I found which we could use for the userbox, talk page template, and similar things:
. If anyone's got something more ballot-like, though, that would be even better... —
Nightst
a
llion
(?)
Seen this already? 13:29, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
We should probably come up with one before doing anything else. Current standard seems to be to use "election", and not "elections", and to use the general template "Austrian presidential election, 2004". One point which is still open to discussion is whether to use "legislative", "parliamentary", or something else entirely for elections to parliament... Thoughts? — Nightst a llion (?) Seen this already? 13:18, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Here's a thought: In order to ease comparability of political parties that never compete because they run for elections in different parliaments, I tend to find it helpful to roughly categorize them by bloc or political colour. Usually, this will conveniently translate into a two-dimensional left-right classification, although this allows only for a superficial analysis that ignores powerful local or national issues. Still, I like the simple red-or-blue scale because it makes it so easy to comprehend and to convert for comparisons with other election results elsewhere. Cf the EP political groupings here. Even more pedagogical are the graphical representations that are in effect maps of parliamentary plena with the seats coloured to show the relative size of parties and blocs. (What are those called?) // Big Adamsky • BA's talk page 22:40, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
In the last months I have transferred or made all latest election results in all countries and dependencies in one specific layout. I use the template:Electiontable or in older versions template:Election-table. These tables are allways put in a template, to enable the consistency of the results troughout Wikipedia. The templates are named for e.g. Netherlands parliamentary election, 2003 and should have the same name as an entry on that election. These templates are placed in the Elections in 2006 (or 2005) article, in Elections in XX (allways the latest for each national office and body) , in Politics of XX in the section Political parties and elections (only the latest for each national office and body), in the entry on the elected body of office and in the specific entry on the election. Each legislative election table includes at least space for the name of the party, preferably in English and native language, the number of votes, the percentage of popular vote and the number of seats. Parties without representation with less than 1 % of the vote are usually not included. More data can be included. At any office election table, each candidate is listed with name, party and at least space for number of votes and percentage of popular vote. If you don't object, I will pace this as an item on the project page. I will try and replace election-table with electiontable in the future. Electionworld = Wilfried ( talk 13:04, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
For every country and dependency a Politics of XX series has been made. The series templates, which use similar layout use the politbox template and should at least include entries on:
The template can include data on administrative divisions (i would like that to happen at all entities) and judiciary. The template should be placed in the right top of any article included in the template as well as of any article on any (national) election and political party in the country. Australia has a separate bottom template. A solution should be found for the template in combiantion with a infobox on parties. Electionworld = Wilfried ( talk 13:04, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
I believe that lists of election results should be in chronological order from earliest to latest. In some articles, I see it in reverse order. What's the consensus?— Markles 12:11, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
The plural of referendum is referendums (unless we are going to conduct this page in Latin). Adam 08:54, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
When you write an article on referendums at the Latin Wikipedia (Wikipedium?), you can use all the gerunds you like. Here we speak English, and the English plural of referendum is referendums. Adam 11:09, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I'm a member of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing articles using these criteria, and we are are asking for your help. As you are most aware of the issues surrounding your focus area, we are wondering if you could provide us with a list of the articles that fall within the scope of your WikiProject, and that are either featured, A-class, B-class, or Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Do you have any recommendations? If you do, please post your suggestions at the listing of all active Humanities WikiProjects, and if you have any questions, ask me in the Work Via WikiProjects talk page or directly in my talk page. Thanks a lot! Tito xd( ?!? - help us) 01:26, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
Wikipedia:Community Justice/Elections has just began, and I'd appreciate some non-members as election staff. I know this isn't your responsibility, but I think you may be interested. Thanks. Computerjoe 's talk 21:22, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
I would like to alert this community to the fact that Wikisource has decided to delete all reference data, some of which may be of interest to this project. This raises the question of whether some of this material should be hosted at Wikipedia. See Wikisource:Category:Deletion requests/Reference_data and the discussion at Wikisource:Scriptorium. In particular all the tables of election results are to be deleted.-- agr 15:41, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
There are a number of fair use images (mostly logos of political parties) on this page, probably coming from the templates. Per Wikipedia:Fair use criteria #9, fair use images are explicitly prohibited outside the article namespace. Please come up with some way to exclude these images from this page. Might I suggest a "noimg" parameter for the template? howch e ng { chat} 18:52, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
I have made an overview article holding all results of national elections in countries and dependencies. This can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Elections and Referenda/Overview of results. Electionworld = Wilfried ( talk 13:08, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
It is a page for everybody who wants to complete data in the most recent results. It is not the intention to put this article in the mainspace. Electionworld = Wilfried ( talk 20:34, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
I've just created Category:Outgoing politicians as an administrative aid to making sure that all politicians who lose in primaries/general elections can have their bios modified in a timely fashion once they step down. -- nae' blis 20:34, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Single Transferable Vote is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality. Sandy 22:37, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
As far as I can tell, this Wikiproject doesn't have its own Peer review system. Therefore, could I request comments at Wikipedia:Peer review/List of British Columbia general elections/archive1 - which also combined similar lists for Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Any suggestions or comments would be greatly apreciated. Tompw 19:05, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Beginning cross-post.
End cross-post. Please do not comment more in this section.
Could someone with proper authority please add the proper boilerplate to the Talk:Robert Johnson (musician) survey to preserve it by indicating that it should not be modified. Basically, I was hoping to see something like what has been done at Talk:Samuel_Johnson#Requested_move. TonyTheTiger 22:10, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
It may interest you to know that the following elections-related articles are currently Featured List Candidates:
Any comments or votes regarding their nomination are welcome. Tompw 23:35, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
There was a big referendum in Serbia for approval of a new Constitution suggested by the Serbian political body on October 28-29 2006. The old Constitution of the Republic of Serbia was heavily outdated and not changed since 1990; so this comes really as a gigantic thing in Serbia (where everything takes a very slow pace). The Referendum was also slightly controversial, as the Liberals boycotted it and not to mention the ongoing dispute over the status of Kosovo. -- PaxEquilibrium 22:11, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 23:18, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
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![]() | This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Archive 1 | Archive 2 | Archive 3 | → | Archive 5 |
To include an article in this project, please add {{WikiProject Elections and Referendums}} to the talk page.
Scope:
Proposals:
{{ user E&R}}
![]() | This user is a member of WikiProject Elections and Referendums. |
So, for all who are interested in this, a few questions:
Please bear with me, this is my first WikiProject I'm founding here. ;) Take care, — Nightst a llion (?) 10:31, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
The first image I found which we could use for the userbox, talk page template, and similar things:
. If anyone's got something more ballot-like, though, that would be even better... —
Nightst
a
llion
(?)
Seen this already? 13:29, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
We should probably come up with one before doing anything else. Current standard seems to be to use "election", and not "elections", and to use the general template "Austrian presidential election, 2004". One point which is still open to discussion is whether to use "legislative", "parliamentary", or something else entirely for elections to parliament... Thoughts? — Nightst a llion (?) Seen this already? 13:18, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
Here's a thought: In order to ease comparability of political parties that never compete because they run for elections in different parliaments, I tend to find it helpful to roughly categorize them by bloc or political colour. Usually, this will conveniently translate into a two-dimensional left-right classification, although this allows only for a superficial analysis that ignores powerful local or national issues. Still, I like the simple red-or-blue scale because it makes it so easy to comprehend and to convert for comparisons with other election results elsewhere. Cf the EP political groupings here. Even more pedagogical are the graphical representations that are in effect maps of parliamentary plena with the seats coloured to show the relative size of parties and blocs. (What are those called?) // Big Adamsky • BA's talk page 22:40, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
In the last months I have transferred or made all latest election results in all countries and dependencies in one specific layout. I use the template:Electiontable or in older versions template:Election-table. These tables are allways put in a template, to enable the consistency of the results troughout Wikipedia. The templates are named for e.g. Netherlands parliamentary election, 2003 and should have the same name as an entry on that election. These templates are placed in the Elections in 2006 (or 2005) article, in Elections in XX (allways the latest for each national office and body) , in Politics of XX in the section Political parties and elections (only the latest for each national office and body), in the entry on the elected body of office and in the specific entry on the election. Each legislative election table includes at least space for the name of the party, preferably in English and native language, the number of votes, the percentage of popular vote and the number of seats. Parties without representation with less than 1 % of the vote are usually not included. More data can be included. At any office election table, each candidate is listed with name, party and at least space for number of votes and percentage of popular vote. If you don't object, I will pace this as an item on the project page. I will try and replace election-table with electiontable in the future. Electionworld = Wilfried ( talk 13:04, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
For every country and dependency a Politics of XX series has been made. The series templates, which use similar layout use the politbox template and should at least include entries on:
The template can include data on administrative divisions (i would like that to happen at all entities) and judiciary. The template should be placed in the right top of any article included in the template as well as of any article on any (national) election and political party in the country. Australia has a separate bottom template. A solution should be found for the template in combiantion with a infobox on parties. Electionworld = Wilfried ( talk 13:04, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
I believe that lists of election results should be in chronological order from earliest to latest. In some articles, I see it in reverse order. What's the consensus?— Markles 12:11, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
The plural of referendum is referendums (unless we are going to conduct this page in Latin). Adam 08:54, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
When you write an article on referendums at the Latin Wikipedia (Wikipedium?), you can use all the gerunds you like. Here we speak English, and the English plural of referendum is referendums. Adam 11:09, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello. I'm a member of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing articles using these criteria, and we are are asking for your help. As you are most aware of the issues surrounding your focus area, we are wondering if you could provide us with a list of the articles that fall within the scope of your WikiProject, and that are either featured, A-class, B-class, or Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Do you have any recommendations? If you do, please post your suggestions at the listing of all active Humanities WikiProjects, and if you have any questions, ask me in the Work Via WikiProjects talk page or directly in my talk page. Thanks a lot! Tito xd( ?!? - help us) 01:26, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
Wikipedia:Community Justice/Elections has just began, and I'd appreciate some non-members as election staff. I know this isn't your responsibility, but I think you may be interested. Thanks. Computerjoe 's talk 21:22, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
I would like to alert this community to the fact that Wikisource has decided to delete all reference data, some of which may be of interest to this project. This raises the question of whether some of this material should be hosted at Wikipedia. See Wikisource:Category:Deletion requests/Reference_data and the discussion at Wikisource:Scriptorium. In particular all the tables of election results are to be deleted.-- agr 15:41, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
There are a number of fair use images (mostly logos of political parties) on this page, probably coming from the templates. Per Wikipedia:Fair use criteria #9, fair use images are explicitly prohibited outside the article namespace. Please come up with some way to exclude these images from this page. Might I suggest a "noimg" parameter for the template? howch e ng { chat} 18:52, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
I have made an overview article holding all results of national elections in countries and dependencies. This can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Elections and Referenda/Overview of results. Electionworld = Wilfried ( talk 13:08, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
It is a page for everybody who wants to complete data in the most recent results. It is not the intention to put this article in the mainspace. Electionworld = Wilfried ( talk 20:34, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
I've just created Category:Outgoing politicians as an administrative aid to making sure that all politicians who lose in primaries/general elections can have their bios modified in a timely fashion once they step down. -- nae' blis 20:34, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Single Transferable Vote is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality. Sandy 22:37, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
As far as I can tell, this Wikiproject doesn't have its own Peer review system. Therefore, could I request comments at Wikipedia:Peer review/List of British Columbia general elections/archive1 - which also combined similar lists for Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Any suggestions or comments would be greatly apreciated. Tompw 19:05, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Beginning cross-post.
End cross-post. Please do not comment more in this section.
Could someone with proper authority please add the proper boilerplate to the Talk:Robert Johnson (musician) survey to preserve it by indicating that it should not be modified. Basically, I was hoping to see something like what has been done at Talk:Samuel_Johnson#Requested_move. TonyTheTiger 22:10, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
It may interest you to know that the following elections-related articles are currently Featured List Candidates:
Any comments or votes regarding their nomination are welcome. Tompw 23:35, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
There was a big referendum in Serbia for approval of a new Constitution suggested by the Serbian political body on October 28-29 2006. The old Constitution of the Republic of Serbia was heavily outdated and not changed since 1990; so this comes really as a gigantic thing in Serbia (where everything takes a very slow pace). The Referendum was also slightly controversial, as the Liberals boycotted it and not to mention the ongoing dispute over the status of Kosovo. -- PaxEquilibrium 22:11, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 23:18, 29 December 2006 (UTC)