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: One way to address this concern is to create a wiki article with links to different users' voting methods (hosted on their own page) with the disclaimer that there may be errors. That way, users can create as many methods as they want, and then plop a link to a category of them on their user page from this article. [[User:BetterVotingAdvocacy|BetterVotingAdvocacy]] ([[User talk:BetterVotingAdvocacy|talk]]) 19:43, 19 March 2020 (UTC)

 

 

[[User:Psephomancy]], what would be a good name for an article that encompasses both majority rule and utilitarianism? I think it'd be interesting to make the overarching point that majority rule only counts the number of people who prefer one outcome over another, while utilitarianism also accounts for their strength of preference. [[User:BetterVotingAdvocacy|BetterVotingAdvocacy]] ([[User talk:BetterVotingAdvocacy|talk]]) 03:43, 18 March 2020 (UTC)

 

:: No, I was thinking more of what the page should be called that encompasses both as a category. I ultimately settled on using the [[Utility]] page for this, with cardinal utility for utilitarianism and ordinal utility for majoritarianism. [[User:BetterVotingAdvocacy|BetterVotingAdvocacy]] ([[User talk:BetterVotingAdvocacy|talk]]) 06:15, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

 

I'd like to make a page regarding "allocation methods". Specifically, it should serve as a category for highest-averages and largest remainder methods, and talk a little about some of the impossibilities of creating a perfect allocation method. I think "allocation method", "seat allocation method", "apportionment method" would be good names for such an article, but what do you think? [[User:BetterVotingAdvocacy|BetterVotingAdvocacy]] ([[User talk:BetterVotingAdvocacy|talk]]) 05:29, 23 March 2020 (UTC)

 

What would be a good way to organize the wiki to describe various commonly discussed voter distributions, such as "bipolarized" (majority vs. minority), "3-cyclic" (3 factions that create a Condorcet cycle), etc? I'm thinking a section could be created under the [[Statistics]] page perhaps. But I'd like to see if more organization can be created such that the resulting page can service more than just a handful of voter distributions i.e. link to and be providing knowledge for more things. [[User:BetterVotingAdvocacy|BetterVotingAdvocacy]] ([[User talk:BetterVotingAdvocacy|talk]]) 10:08, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

 

: Probably in a [[spatial model of voting]] article? (Though that's notable enough to be a Wikipedia article...) — [[User:Psephomancy|Psephomancy]] ([[User talk:Psephomancy|talk]]) 19:30, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

 

I was on German Wikipedia, and found this article (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehrheitsbedingung) which, if you look at it in Google Translate, discusses a criterion that a majority must always win at least half of the seats in a multi-winner election (the Google translation calls it the "majority condition"). I've often wondered if there is an English equivalent; do you know of any such thing? [[User:BetterVotingAdvocacy|BetterVotingAdvocacy]] ([[User talk:BetterVotingAdvocacy|talk]]) 07:08, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

 

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