User:Scott Ritchie
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Scott Ritchie lives in Davis, California and is originally from Lafayette, California. He also contributes to the Davis Wiki. Elsewhere on the internet he is a Wine packager for Ubuntu. Wine Wiki Page Ubuntu Wiki Page
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[edit] Proposed Change to Naming Convention Guidelines
I have a slight change to the naming conventions proposed based on observations in my work with the voting articles. Currently, they seem to be interpretted a bit ambiguously. See /Naming.
[edit] Featured articles I have made major contributions to
[edit] Current works in progress
I'm currently trying to get these to improve these articles. Please help!
- Wine (software)
- Lots in todo list
- Table of voting systems by nation
- Finish merge of tables
- Make UK,Wales,Scotland,N.Ireland one entry
- Plurality voting system
- Complete rework...
- Show example of California recall election, which had no primaries, and how x% of the people didn't vote for the two obvious frontrunners.
- Similarly, Russian example.
- Section on the spoiler effect and how primaries and runoff voting were designed as partial workarounds.
- Because of duverge's law and the resulting tendency towards two-party system, additional parties in countries using the plurality voting system are frequently given the moniker of third party. Perhaps even have a section on third parties.
- Instant-runoff voting
- Complete rework...
- Gerrymandering
- mention iowa and the judge commissions and such they have in the proposed reforms section
- Note that STV makes gerrymandering harder in Ireland
- Note that in Germany wasted party-votes only occur if party <5%
- Mention multi-member districts as a reform, as they reduce the wasted vote effect if using proportional representation or a semi-proportional method (bloc voting, however, will not reduce the number of wasted votes)
- Cumulative voting
- note unusual incentive to give bad polling information to make the opponents overextend themselves.
- "Finally, cumulative voting has a pro-incumbent bias in both partisan and non-partisan elections. Supporters of a party or interest group are likely to discourage challenges to incumbents favoring their position and not to risk giving votes to the challengers who do run." [1]
- Strategy is to get voters to dump all their points on you...
- Bloc voting
- Note strategy
- Note unconstitutional, yet still in use
- Mention banned by act of congress, which also bans multimember districts, for congressional elections
- Note clones of a candidate with majority support will win (in fact, the optimal strategy is to have a slate of clones)
- Droop Quota
- Note that Meek pointed out that not adding +1 would result in a true tie.
- Also note droop criterion, or droop proportionality
- Representation (politics)
- Move malapportionment back in, summary style
- Make descriptive representation its own article
These are related to the Voting Systems WikiProject and the Campaigns and Elections WikiProject.
[edit] Todo later
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- Create a section on progressivity debate, move a bunch of junk into there.
- Also put in the cool graph from the FairTax site (with permission)
- Create a good template to replace Template:Politics
- Change the Template:Elections to be the Election Politics series once I make that article.
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- Give it a link back to politics, but probably remove the politics by country stuff.
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- Mention some of the studies learned about in class, effects of turnout in local government, effects of voting systems
- +turnout: competitive elections, higher stakes elections (president vs county dogcatcher)
- -turnout: gerrymandering, lack of candidates (sometimes even no contested elections on the ballot)
- More media on an election raises turnout, however these tend to follow from competitive elections ("horse race coverage") as well as higher stakes elections (who cares about the dogcatcher race?)
- hmm, might be beaten to this as voter turnout is a featured article.
- unaninimouty tradition; consensus decision-making
- Single winner voting system
- Multiple winner voting system
- Nonproportional voting system
- Brownfield
- Dilon's rule
- Council of Government
- Median Voter Theorem
- Ecological footprint
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- criticism of counting the use of land which would otherwise not be used for anything as a contributor to a larger ecological footprint. "When I was alone in my living room, my mom told me 'Don't sprawl out on the couch, if everyone did that, we'd need 5 living rooms!'"
- Wikiproject:Creating good articles about rich people and other major potential donors so we don't scare them away
[edit] Watchlist idea
It occured to me that one of the best ways for a page to be protected from vandals, spam, and nonsense is for it to be on a bunch of Wikipedians' watchlists. Perhaps there should be a way for an article to indicate how many watchlists its on? Perhaps we could tie it in with the proposed validation procedures.
[edit] Useful Links
[edit] Election vocabulary
The following words make no sense:
- constituency - can mean a district for holding an election, OR the people in said district, OR a subset of those people, OR a group of supporters for even non elected people
- electoral district - always means a district for holding an election, however this term isn't used much outside of the US
- electorate - Can mean "constituency" in the people sense (especially in US), however in Australian it can mean "constituency" in the district sense
- riding - has the same meaning as electoral district in Canada, but is considered slang
- ward - an electoral district for local government, OR a region for party bosses in the US
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- Currently, the article at constituency seems to be confusing all 3 of the definitions it has - perhaps we should have several different articles. Then again, they're rather related, so maybe we should have one or two.
- preferential voting - can mean using a ranked ballot, or can mean instant-runoff voting, or can mean Single Transferable Vote
- instant-runoff voting - only means single winner, ranked ballot elections using the voting system described there
- IRV+ - actually means condorcet voting
- Single Transferable Vote - Usually means multiple-winner STV, however sometimes used to refer to IRV
- alternative vote - always means instant-runoff
Draft proposal to put up at RFC/village pump:
- Have electoral district refer to what's mostly at the constituency article now, except for the lead which is about all sorts of things
- Turn electorate into a disambig page (it's mostly a wiktionary entry as it is)
* done myself (be bold)
- Similarly, turn riding into a disambig page and move the content there to electoral district
- Again, merge ward (politics) into electoral district and some amount of local government (for when ward means more than district)
- Ward is already a disambig page, keep it that way
- Have constituency refer to the people represented, with a disambig pointer to electoral district at the top and a small note about the other forms of representation that don't necessarily refer to ALL the people (especially "core constituency")
[edit] Disambig page cleanup
There are a lot of disambig pages that need cleanup to conform with MoS:DP. If you see one, tag it with {{disambig-cleanup}} instead of {{disambig}} There is also a Disambiguation WikiProject
