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::: I wasn't straw manning you; IIRC, EVC prefers "voting" over "electoral", so I was saying they should be able to write "voting method" rather than "electoral method" in something like the STAR voting article. I don't have enough information to judge whether electoral or voting is a better term, so I leave that to you. I'd just mention that in my limited experience, I've seen more uses of "voting" than "electoral", most likely owing to simplicity. [[User:BetterVotingAdvocacy|BetterVotingAdvocacy]] ([[User talk:BetterVotingAdvocacy|talk]]) |
::: I wasn't straw manning you; IIRC, EVC prefers "voting" over "electoral", so I was saying they should be able to write "voting method" rather than "electoral method" in something like the STAR voting article. I don't have enough information to judge whether electoral or voting is a better term, so I leave that to you. I'd just mention that in my limited experience, I've seen more uses of "voting" than "electoral", most likely owing to simplicity. [[User:BetterVotingAdvocacy|BetterVotingAdvocacy]] ([[User talk:BetterVotingAdvocacy|talk]]) |
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I mean that "voting" and "electoral" are synonyms, as are "method" and "system". |
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* [[wikt:voting]]: action of the verb to vote |
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* [[wikt:electoral]]: Of, or relating to elections. |
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* [[wikt:system]]: A method or way of organizing or planning. |
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* [[wikt:method]]: A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something |
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Wiktionary literally lists [[wikt:electoral system]] as a synonym of "voting system". I'm not seeing a compelling reason to prefer one over another. I looked through a few different sources to see what terms different authors use: |
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* Gibbard: |
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** "voting scheme" |
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** "system of voting" |
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* McLean |
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** "electoral system" |
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** "voting system" |
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** "electoral rule" |
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* Nanson |
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** "method of election" |
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*Baldwin |
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** "method of voting" |
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*Hogben |
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** "system of voting" |
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*Schulze |
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** "election method" |
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*Emerson M.S. Niou |
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** "voting rule" |
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*Emerson, Peter |
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** "voting system" |
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** "electoral system" |
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*Riker |
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** "voting method" |
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** "method of voting" |
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** "voting system" |
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* FairVote |
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** "voting system" |
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** "voting method" |
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* Britannica |
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** "electoral system" |
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* Electoral Reform Society |
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** "voting system" |
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** "electoral system" |
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''"but do you think the people who argued for the "Voting system" to "Electoral system" on English Wikipedia were wrong?"'' |
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: Can you summarize their arguments? They had multiple long discussions about it, but did Wikipedia just defer to the first name of the article because the discussion was going nowhere? |
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Remember [[w:Fredkin's paradox|Fredkin's paradox]]... — [[User:Psephomancy|Psephomancy]] ([[User talk:Psephomancy|talk]]) 01:55, 26 April 2020 (UTC) |