Talk:2014 Mauritian general election

Deleted material

It seems a lot of valuable info has been deleted without any explanation in the talk section.--Batmacumba (talk) 21:10, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

List of all candidates was unnecessary, especially after results (create a separate WP:LIST if you want but not in this short article as it was making article unreadable) and the article was not up to standard to get it selected for ITN. See Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates#General_Election_in_Mauritius --174.95.128.224 (talk) 01:30, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Seat count

The seat count has a reference to a list of members elected from the alliance, which does not cite what parties the candidates come from, so it must be based on a count using a list of party affiliation. I did a similar count and got 34 MSM, 7 PMSD, 5 ML and one NDM /8 MMM and 5 Labour. So there is a difference. What list have you used? Could you list the candidates from each of the small parties (no need to do it for MSM, so we can see where the difference is?--Batmacumba (talk) 21:35, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

I've removed it for now. I can't find any source for this, nor for the top-up seats. Number 57 20:23, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

See this article which list candidates by individual party and total for individual party. Maybe it should be added as reference to article: http://www.defimedia.info/journal-de-campagne/item/64853-47-elus-pour-lepep-et-13-pour-ptr-mmm.html --174.95.128.224 (talk) 01:34, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

That does indeed list the individual parties, but not the top-up seats. Number 57 08:42, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Found it here. Number 57 08:47, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Putting the long table of results doesn't make the article look good (It might be better if it was collapsable) and the small table is better for readability. Find me another general election article which list results whereby each and every party (even those with 0.001% and 0% of total votes) are listed. Also, if you want to put all parties, please edit the template.

Also, please don't translate the name of the political parties. Even in English media, their name remains as they are. For example, Front Solidarité Mauricienne (FSM) is not Mauritian Solidarity Front; Mouvement Mauricien Social Démocrate (MMSD) is not Mauritian Social Democratic Movement; Mouvement Rodriguais (MR) is not Rodrigues Militant Movement. Find me an English source which proved they are translated and then we can translate. Already the official source is in English and their names are not translated. The name of the parties should be as they are mentioned in the Electoral Commissionner's website unless you find an English language source which showed they are translated such as for the Mauritian Labour Party which is the exception here (Even then, not all English sources translate the Parti Travailliste) . Thank you. --174.95.128.224 (talk) 23:27, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Almost all articles have all parties (where data is available – see Burkinabé parliamentary election, 2012, Malian parliamentary election, 2013 or Mauritanian parliamentary election, 2013 as examples). However, collapsible can be done, and I'll sort that out tomorrow when I have a bit of time. Shall we say any party with less than 0.1% of the vote gets collapsed? That would allow the whole table to fit on a single page (at least at the resolution I use).

I'll also look at the party names when I do that. Cheers, Number 57 23:34, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

Seeing as you've decided to continue reverting the detailed results out of the article, I've done the collapsing now so that readers aren't deprived of the full information in the meantime. I'll look again at party names tomorrow. Number 57 23:46, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

I reverted after I provided reasoning above, sorry if there was any misunderstanding. In any case, the alignment of the 2 tables is not good. --174.95.128.224 (talk) 00:09, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

The alignment doesn't work because you keep trying to use a header that doesn't work with collapsing tables. Please use the "Show preview" button to see what your edit has done, rather than save a broken table. I've now added an edit link that does work. Cheers, Number 57 00:15, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

I've only added the header once. Your table should follow the Template:Election table. Right now it does not. Most elections templates I've seen have a header (See examples such as Template:United States presidential election results, 2008 or Template:European Parliament election, 2014 (France) or Template:New Zealand election, 2014). Also, the examples of articles you listed above don't much have much editing and reading traffic to be served as examples, especially that they are not English-speaking countries. Good examples would be Australian federal election, 2013#Results and New Zealand general election, 2014#Results. These articles don't list all parties as they just say "others". Also, columns of the last few rows of the table do not align with the upper rows, irrespective whether there is a header or not. This table does not match tables for other Mauritian general elections tables. Please see Category:Mauritian election results templates. 174.95.128.224 (talk) 01:49, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

1. No, you added it twice (here and here)
2. The table should not follow the election table format, as the vast majority of tables do not have headers – the ones you cite are the exception rather than the rule. If you want examples from English speaking countries, see Botswana general election, 2014, Malawian general election, 2014, Namibian general election, 2014, Zimbabwean general election, 2013 etc.
3. The category you mention only has three templates in it – the majority of Mauritian articles (every election from 1959–1995) have the normal table.

Re party names, the Mauritian Solidarity Front and Rodrigues Movement articles are at those titles, so the name here matches them. Some sources for the others:

• Mauritian Social Democratic Movement: CIA World Factbook
• Social Justice Party: Afrique Jet
• Free Citizens' Forum: EISA
• Rodrigues Militant Movement–Rodrigues Patriotic Front: Political Handbook of the World
• Authentic Mauritian Movement: EISA
• The Liberals: Electoral Commission
• Liberal Action Party: EISA
• Mauritian Workers' Movement: EISA
• Socialist Front: EISA
• Mauritian People's Party: EISA
• Link to Build: EISA
• Independent Forward Bloc: Electoral Commission
• Mauritian Socialist Rally: EISA
• Poor People Party: Electoral Commission
• National Liberation Front: Election Passport
• Regional Assembly Man-Animal-Nature: Electoral Commission
• Four Cats Political Party: Electoral Commission
• Mauritian Action Committee: Election Passport
• Mauritius Party Rights: Electoral Commission

The ones I couldn't find translations for were Agreement for Parliamentary Democracy, Militant Lepep Movement, Movement for People's Liberation, Rodrigues Independence Movement, Mauritian Democratic Party, Mauritian Patriotic Front, Mauritius New Generation Forces, National Socialist Movement and the Mauritian National Congress. However, as you can see from above, it's usual for secondary sources to use the English name, so they will probably appear once the likes of Election Passport and EISA update for the 2014 elections. Number 57 08:31, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

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