Talk:Mixed electoral system

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Please explain the large change

Hi @Rankedchoicevoter: it would seem that you copied and adapted a version of w:Mixed electoral system from Wikipedia, and then didn't provide any indication where you copied it from nor what version you copied. If you in fact copied the material from Wikipedia without providing some form of credit and linking, that would seem to be a violation of the Creative Commons/GFDL licenses used by English Wikipedia. I haven't personally formed an opinion about whether the old version of the electowiki article ("Mixed electoral system" oldid=14194) or your new version ("Mixed electoral system" oldid=18775) is better, but regardless, it's disruptive to make such a large change to an article without explaining yourself. Can you explain why you made such a large change as your first modification to electowiki, and why you believe your new version is better than the old version? -- RobLa (talk) 02:15, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Hello, I think the content here on mixed methods is lacking a lot, I worked on the wikipedia pages of the same article in the recent years, I thought I would help bring it up to at least the same level here. Of course, focus could be different, but I started with that as a basis. Is that a problem? do you have any advice as to how to do it better and what should I pay attention to?

I deleted most of it so it can be rearticulated without need to roll back, but also went back and made sure nothing of value was lost from the previous version. Unfortunately there were many inaccuracies in the previous versions, like the use of the term mixed member proportional to refer to parallel voting. -- unsigned comment by Rankedchoicevoter - unknown timestamp (UTC)

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