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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) |
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) |
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''eager to use Categories as names'' |
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: I'm not sure what you mean? |
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''I remember [[User:Homunq]] believed pretty strongly that we should start calling them "Voting systems"'' |
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: I thought it was "voting methods" that he liked, because "systems" includes electronic vs paper ballots, etc.? |
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''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.'' |
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: Yeah, I'll just assume they debated that to death and decided that method was better for some reason. :D |
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''But category renames are such a pain to do'' |
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: They're easy to do with the mass edit extension, I did one yesterday: |
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:# Move [[:Category:Preferential voting methods]] to [[:Category:Ranked voting methods]] |
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:# 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) |
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:# In the "Search for:" box, put <code><nowiki>/\[\[Category:Preferential voting methods\]\]/</nowiki></code> |
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:# In the "Replace with:" box, put <code><nowiki>[[Category:Ranked voting methods]]</nowiki></code> |
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:# Make an edit summary |
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:# Press Preview to make sure it's not going to clobber anything |
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:# Press Execute |
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— [[User:Psephomancy|Psephomancy]] ([[User talk:Psephomancy|talk]]) 02:56, 14 April 2020 (UTC) |