User talk:Dr. Edmonds

Welcome!

Hi Dr. Edmonds! First, a belated welcome! We appreciate getting contributions of original material to complement (and potentially replace) a lot of content that was copied to this wiki in 2005.

I only just saw the thread on the "Mirror of ElectoWiki" thread on forum.electionscience.org that you seem to have been a participant in. While I think there's a lot of interesting content over on rangevoting.org, there's also content that I don't agree with, and that (in my vague recollection) I think many people on the election-methods mailing list also didn't agree with. We need to make sure that electowiki.org content is generally well-vetted on a trusted forum (e.g. election-methods mailing list, reddit's /r/EndFPTP).

Anyway, I'll try to keep up and clean up some of your work, but as you can see, I haven't been able to keep up with the pace that you've been posting stuff. I'll try to keep pace, but you can help by being rigorous about linking to Wikipedia articles (rather than creating new original content here) and aligning the article names with Wikipedia style (per w:WP:CAPITALIZATION).

I'm looking forward to editing electowiki.org with you! -- RobLa (talk) 04:54, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Thanks RobLa Much of the content I have posted so far had been collected from a lot of sources and condensed privately for my own reference. There are several documents put together by Equal Vote as well as stuff on the CES forum that I have added. reddit's /r/EndFPTP tends to be fairly amateur and I would prefer to source content from published papers and books. I have a few experts who I have arranged to write specific pages and I have set up skeletons to facilitate that. My understanding was that electowiki intended to be more detailed and in depth than Wikipedia so if we can have a better page then lets do so. There is a lot of content on wikipedia that nobody outside of FairVote agrees with. I am happy to have both and/or all opinions on electowiki and keep politics out of it. A good example is my rewrite of Proportional Representation. I was very biased and inaccurate. I have updated it to contain a more nuanced and detailed explanation. I do apologize for any formatting, spelling and grammar errors I have made. I intend to come back and proof read everything. As for the content on rangevoting.org, could you elaborate on what you disagree with? There is a lot of unpolished steam of consciousness type pages but the core stuff it reasonable. In my experience people tend to site it like we would want them to site electowiki. And for the record Warren is happy for us to take any content from there we wish to and says as much on the site.