Talk:2018 Sri Lankan local elections

TNA or ITAK?

The article gives the TNA as one of the contesting parties, but the election results make no mention of the TNA, but only its constituent party ITAK. Any thoughts on this?- ක - (talk) 04:40, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

No response, and I can't see any sources supporting the fact that the TNA contested instead of ITAK, which is what even the elections commission is reporting. Article altered to reflect this. - ක - (talk) 19:15, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

@Jesuschristonacamel: You might want to give others a chance to respond. Tamil National Alliance is unregistered and as such contests elections under the name and symbol of its major constituent party, the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi. This has been the case since the TNA was established in 2001. And we in Wikipedia have always used TNA, not ITAK, in election articles, starting from Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 2001. The same principle applies to United National Front, which is also unregistered and contests elections under the name and symbol of United National Party. Here's one of hundreds of sources which mention TNA.--Obi2canibe (talk) 21:35, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the info, @Obi2canibe:, will stick to this in the future. I dont particularly agree with it, but if its established practice, I'm pk with it. - ක - (talk) 08:09, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Results

Several editors, e.g. Tharumaxx and Jesuschristonacamel, have started adding results without providing any sources, violating Wikipedia's core content policies. I was very tempted to remove the entire Results section.

There are no official national results because of the problems the Election Commission faced on election night. There are few media sources, e.g. Daily Mirror, Ada Derana, but they give different results. If, like me, you have gone through the individual paperwork filled out by election officials (available at news.lk), you will see that there were many errors. The new electoral system has confused many of these officials and they have filled them out in all sorts of manner, which makes interpreting them difficult.

As an encyclopedia we need to provide reliable information, not just use the first source we find just to populate an article. The Election Commission will provide an official results book at the end of this month which can be used to update this article. Until then all the results need to be removed - they are wrong.--Obi2canibe (talk) 22:48, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

Most of the results were added by Tharumaxx. What I did was to put the results in graphical form, which more or less used the results on the page already. I too noticed the results differed between sources, and was going to do a proper cleanup of the sources and update from the dailymirror site, but something came up in real life and i couldnt go through with it. Add to this the earlier statement by the EC saying it was not their business to release national results, and i believe everyone involved in adding results to the page were justified in doing so. The decision to produce a booklet was unknown to me until you mentioned it, and i take no responsibility for the error- I went off of what Deshapriya said to the media. I do agree the sourcing was a mess. Please do go ahead and remove the results section. - ක - (talk) 08:18, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

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