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:: I had assumed you created the Ranked voting article knowing that there was already a Preferential voting article. [Next point] I don't think that there really is a strict "ranked ballot/ordinal method" dichotomy for naming; I refer to cardinal methods all the time as "rated methods" and have seen people call rated ballots "cardinal ballots", so I'd like to see the same categories and taxonomy you mentioned, but let the words rated/cardinal and ranked/ordinal be interchangeable. [[User:BetterVotingAdvocacy|BetterVotingAdvocacy]] ([[User talk:BetterVotingAdvocacy|talk]]) 22:23, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
::: I created the "Ranked voting" article because I saw that Wikipedia has two articles:
:::* [[wikipedia:Preferential voting]] - a disambiguation article that points to many other articles, including [[wikipedia:Ranked voting]]
:::* [[wikipedia:Ranked voting]] - the primary article about voting systems that use ranked ballots
::: I had admittedly forgotten that I had copied over the intro to "Ranked voting" over from Wikipedia, but now I remember my rationale. Our "Preferential voting" article has drifted too far away from its Wikipedia counterpart that we run the risk of confusing our readers. We need to figure out how to align our content with Wikipedia's content. The [[Preferential voting]] article probably needs to get merged into the [[Ranked voting]] article, and "Ranked voting" probably needs to be the main article. Looking at the edit history for [[Preferential voting]] on Electowiki, it appears as though it was copied over from a 2005 version of the Wikipedia article. The edit history for [[wikipedia:Ranked voting]] is harder to read, but it looks like there has been a concerted effort to define an equivalence between "ranked ballot" and "ranked choice voting" over the past few years . Given that "Preferential voting" is still the term used to describe [[Instant-runoff voting]] in some parts of the world, we have a confusing soup of terminology.
::: I believe that we need a single article to describe the ranked ballot independent of tabulation method. Whether we call that thing "Ranked" or "Preferential" (or even "Ordinal") is less consequential to me than that we have something that we use consistently, and that we use it to describe the ''ballot'', not the tabulation method. Since Wikipedia ''seems'' to have settled on "ranked voting" as the term to generically describe voting using ranked ballots (and currently redirects [[wikipedia:Ranked ballot]] to the "Ranked voting" article), I'd prefer to call it "Ranked voting". But regardless, let's make sure that when we differ from Wikipedia, we're deliberate about it. -- [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ([[User talk:RobLa|talk]]) 23:34, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
== Conceptual overlap of ranked and rated ballots ==
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