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Line 1: [[User:RobLa\|RobLa]] ([[User talk:RobLa\|talk]]) added topic headlines at 20:48, 29 March 2020 (UTC) == European government formation == [[User:Dr. Edmonds]], this is a specifically British/European concept? Can you clarify that in the intro? Should it really be linked from the Main Page? — [[User:Psephomancy\|Psephomancy]] ([[User talk:Psephomancy\|talk]]) 16:27, 28 March 2020 (UTC) : [[User:Psephomancy\|Psephomancy]] No, all systems result in a government/executive branch in the end. Germany, the US and all the countries using the westminster system all do this in different ways. The topic of reform for this sort of thing is also quite important but does not get much attention from the election science community. I am more well informed on parliamentary systems and have put down what I can for them on this page. Somebody should add some more content for presidential systems. I think the major reform efforts there are with open primaries and electoral college. In both these systems the actual formation process tends to be "find the head of state and let them appoint the rest of the government (cabinet/staff/ect). There was a good discussion of all this [https://forum.electionscience.org/t/irelands-government-formation/597 here] --[[User:Dr. Edmonds\|Dr. Edmonds]] ([[User talk:Dr. Edmonds\|talk]]) 16:54, 28 March 2020 (UTC) Line 9 ⟶ 13: ::::: Yes. Electing the whole of the executive branch from the parliament is an option and this is one way to do it. Clearly this is not possible in a presidential system --[[User:Dr. Edmonds\|Dr. Edmonds]] ([[User talk:Dr. Edmonds\|talk]]) 19:20, 28 March 2020 (UTC) == Homepage portals == I agree with [[User:Dr. Edmonds\|Dr. Edmonds]] that "government formation" is a worthy link from the home page. However, I don't agree that this page is ready for it. It is a long, uncited essay written exclusively by a single author, with links to other articles buried in prose. Links from the front page should have more structured introductions, similar to the portals ([[wikipedia:Portal:Arts\|Portal:Arts]], [[wikipedia:Portal:Biography\|Portal:Biography]], [[wikipedia:Portal:Geography\|Portal:Geography]], [[wikipedia:Portal:History\|Portal:History]], [[wikipedia:Portal:Mathematics\|Portal:Mathematics]], [[wikipedia:Portal:Science\|Portal:Science]], [[wikipedia:Portal:Society\|Portal:Society]], [[wikipedia:Portal:Technology\|Portal:Technology]]) found linked to from the top of [[wikipedia:Main_Page\|the English Wikipedia main page]]. We don't have to make anything as fancy as [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Portal\|Wikipedia's portal system]], but when covering a big-picture topic like government formation. This doesn't just apply to government formation; let's make sure all of the big-picture topics linked to from the homepage focus on structure rather than prose-based persuasion. As of this writing, we promise that Electowiki "''gives you a guide to what these things are''". Let's try to make the guide more like a roadmap and less like a lecture. I'd like to encourage experts like [[User:Dr. Edmonds\|Dr. Edmonds]] to opine on electoral reform subjects on Electowiki, and we can even figure out how to prominently link to essays by subject-matter experts like Dr. Edmonds, but I would prefer this essay in its current form reside at [[User:Dr. Edmonds/Government formation]] rather than at [[Government formation]], since in its current form, its in DEPOV (Dr. Edmonds' point of view) rather than EPOV (Electowiki point-of-view). My instinct would be to move this page over to Dr. Edmonds' user area, and then create a new, much simpler portal-lite which links to Dr Edmonds' essay in the intro of the new [[Government formation]] portal. -- [[User:RobLa\|RobLa]] ([[User talk:RobLa\|talk]]) 20:48, 29 March 2020 (UTC)