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, 4 years ago→Electoral systems: because wikipedia:Voting method edirects to prose about the mechanisms+logistics of voting, that seems reason enough to me
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Barring compelling objection, I intend to rename this category to "Electoral systems" in June 2020. Comments still welcome at Category_talk:Voting methods, but to we've been discussing this for months, and it's time to align ourselves with Wikipedia's chosen terminology. Additionally, most of the prose from this article will be moved to Electoral system, and the category page will become a much more succinct description of what "electoral systems" are. -- [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ([[User talk:RobLa|talk]]) 02:55, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
: Do you have any sources where the major North American voting reform organizations use "voting method" to mean something other than "electoral system"? I'm not objecting to this change, but I'm curious. [[User:BetterVotingAdvocacy|BetterVotingAdvocacy]] ([[User talk:BetterVotingAdvocacy|talk]]) 05:42, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
:: I'm not planning on gathering evidence. [[English Wikipedia]] clearly went through years of discussion arriving at the current terminology. I don't agree with everything that gets consensus in that community, but that [[wikipedia:Voting method]] redirects to prose about the mechanisms+logistics of voting (e.g. paper ballots, machine voting, online voting, postal voting and other methods), it seems self-defeating to try to redefine the term on electowiki. -- [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ([[User talk:RobLa|talk]]) 21:45, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
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