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Cleaning up categories

See Electowiki:The_caucus#Cleaning_up_categories Psephomancy (talk) 13:49, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

Naming

User:Psephomancy, now I see why you were eager to use Categories as names. I remember User:Homunq believed pretty strongly that we should start calling them "Voting systems" rather than "Electoral systems". But "electoral system" won on Wikipedia, and I'm guessing that's the mainstream academic name. "Electoral system" makes way more sense to me as a name.

Regardless of what we decide to rename the Voting system article to, I think we should make that article the main article for this category, and only have a brief category description here, in a style similar to Wikipedia. But category renames are such a pain to do, I'm happy with leaving Category:Voting methods in its current location. Thoughts? -- RobLa (talk) 23:55, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

eager to use Categories as names

I'm not sure what you mean?

I remember User:Homunq believed pretty strongly that we should start calling them "Voting systems"

I thought it was "voting methods" that he liked, because "systems" includes electronic vs paper ballots, etc.?

I think we should make that article the main article for this category, and only have a brief category description here, in a style similar to Wikipedia.

Yeah, I'll just assume they debated that to death and decided that method was better for some reason. :D

But category renames are such a pain to do

They're easy to do with the mass edit extension, I did one yesterday:

Move Category:Preferential voting methods to Category:Ranked voting methods
On Category:Preferential voting methods, click the "Edit all" tab (I'm not sure if it's visible for all users, but it should be visible to you)
In the "Search for:" box, put /\[\[Category:Preferential voting methods\]\]/
In the "Replace with:" box, put [[Category:Ranked voting methods]]
Make an edit summary
Press Preview to make sure it's not going to clobber anything
Press Execute

— Psephomancy (talk) 02:56, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

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 Regardless of what we decide to rename the [[Voting system]] article to, I think we should make that article the main article for this category, and only have a brief category description here, in a style similar to Wikipedia.  But category renames are such a pain to do, I'm happy with leaving [[:Category:Voting methods]] in its current location.  Thoughts? -- [[User:RobLa|RobLa]] ([[User talk:RobLa|talk]]) 23:55, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
+''eager to use Categories as names''
+: I'm not sure what you mean?
+''I remember [[User:Homunq]] believed pretty strongly that we should start calling them "Voting systems"''
+: I thought it was "voting methods" that he liked, because "systems" includes electronic vs paper ballots, etc.?
+''I think we should make that article the main article for this category, and only have a brief category description here, in a style similar to Wikipedia.''
+: Yeah, I'll just assume they debated that to death and decided that method was better for some reason.  :D
+''But category renames are such a pain to do''
+: They're easy to do with the mass edit extension, I did one yesterday:
+:# Move [[:Category:Preferential voting methods]] to [[:Category:Ranked voting methods]]
+:# On [[:Category:Preferential voting methods]], click the "Edit all" tab (I'm not sure if it's visible for all users, but it should be visible to you)
+:# In the "Search for:" box, put <code><nowiki>/\[\[Category:Preferential voting methods\]\]/</nowiki></code>
+:# In the "Replace with:" box, put <code><nowiki>[[Category:Ranked voting methods]]</nowiki></code>
+:# Make an edit summary
+:# Press Preview to make sure it's not going to clobber anything
+:# Press Execute
+— [[User:Psephomancy|Psephomancy]]&nbsp;([[User talk:Psephomancy|talk]]) 02:56, 14 April 2020 (UTC)