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As of this writing, this article has the name "Reweighted Range Voting". [[User:Fsargent]] implicitly suggested renaming the article to "Proportional score voting", and was more explicit elsewhere. I wouldn't mind renaming the article, if for no other reason than to make it so that we can lowercase the first letters of the title (per [[w:WP:TITLEFORMAT|the English Wikipedia "Manual of Style" regarding TITLEFORMAT]]). Should we rename "[[Reweighted Range Voting]]" to "'''[[Proportional score voting]]'''"? If not that, should we rename the article at all? -- [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ([[User talk:RobLa|talk]]) 07:04, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
: I would not support such a change for a few reasons. This system was invented (or possibly independently reinvented) by Warren Smith. He gave it that name and many people follow that name. To change it now to something which is not commonly used would be a strange move. I have never heard it referred to as that. Secondly, the proposed new name is too generic. There are many score voting systems which are proportional. A change of this nature may be misconstrued as a statement that it is the only or the best such system. Thirdly, if we were to rename it there are better choices. The system is based on "Sequential Proportional Approval Voting" so something more in line with that would make sense. However, there already exists "Sequential proportional score voting" and "Single Distributed Vote" which are different interpretations for how to extend SPAV to score ballots. And The conventions for naming systems is to try to make the name describe the system somewhat. While the descriptions normally only get at a part of the system the "reweighting" mechanism is the key component here and keeping that makes sense. I could see a change to "Sequentially reweighted score voting" since it adds the specification that it is a sequential system and uses the more modern "score" in place of "range". The shorter "Reweighted score voting" is already fairly commonly used. This is noted already on the page. The only motivation I could see for this renaming would be branding and lobbying but I do not think it would be justified to give this systems such a definitive name. --[[User:Dr. Edmonds|Dr. Edmonds]] ([[User talk:Dr. Edmonds|talk]]) 17:11, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
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