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: As for the name of the method itself, Kemeny-Young seems okay to me. It attributes credit to both Kemeny and Young, and distinguishes the method from the "other" Young method (where the winner is the candidate who becomes the CW after deleting the fewest ballots). It doesn't include the name "Condorcet", true, but neither does, say, River or Ranked Pairs. [[User:Kristomun|Kristomun]] ([[User talk:Kristomun|talk]]) 07:54, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

:: Thank you for this straightforward answer, [[User:Kristomun|Kristomun]]. There was a conversation that I had elsewhere not too long ago where we discussed the possibility of moving the convention for Condorcet-winner-compliant methods away from naming them after the contemporary "inventor" to toward moving them to "Condorcet-_____" (where "_____" is the contemporary inventor). That would make it clearer for readers new to this subject that the differences between the variety of Condorcet-winner-compliant methods are largely negligible in real-world elections. However, in my opinion, it seems more important to stay aligned with the [[English Wikipedia]] naming, so it seems we can rename [[Kemeny-Young Maximum Likelihood Method]] to [[Kemeny–Young method]]. -- [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ([[User talk:RobLa|talk]]) 19:38, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

== Further elaboration on proposed merge ==

I agree that the [[Kemeny-Young Maximum Likelihood Method]] should be renamed to [[Kemeny–Young method]]. This would match Wikipedia, and match what the method is more often called. Of course there would be redirects from '''Kemeny-Young Maximum Likelihood Method''' and '''Condorcet-Kemeny method''', and they would point to the Kemeny-Young article.