Talk:2020 Puerto Rican status referendum
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Jasper Deng in topic Filibuster discussion
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Did you know nomination
edit- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 02:14, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
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- ... that the upcoming sixth Puerto Rican status referendum will be the first to ask a simple yes/no question? Source: will ask Puerto Rico voters to say “yes” or “no” to statehood for the territory., For the first time in the island’s history, the referendum will ask a single, simple question: Should Puerto Rico be immediately admitted as a U.S. state?
- ALT1:... that the question slated for the upcoming 2020 Puerto Rican status referendum is based on the questions used for Alaska and Hawaii? Source: The ballot offers the question in the same format offered to voters in Alaska and Hawaii in the 1950s. In this case, the question is, “Should Puerto Rico be admitted immediately into the Union as a State?”
Created by Chipmunkdavis (talk). Self-nominated at 06:24, 3 August 2020 (UTC).
Query: I've done a little cleanup on the article. What would you think of restyling a simple yes/no question
→ a simple yes-or-no question? (Slashes should generally be avoided per MOS:SLASH.) There's a little semantic issue with ALT0. The article and source say one/single simple [yes/no] question, while the hook says a simple yes/no question (without the single/one). This one source does not rule out that previous multiple-question referendums might have had a yes/no question among several questions. To fix this, I would suggest changing simple → single in the hook. (Which might have been what you intended in the first place.) – Reidgreg (talk) 21:23, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
- Thank you for the cleanup. Does the following hook work?
ALT0a: ... that the upcoming sixth Puerto Rican status referendum will be the first to ask a single yes-or-no question?
- CMD (talk) 00:20, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
Approve ALT0a, ALT1: Article created the day before nomination, is long enough, neutral, with consistent citations and no copyvio detected. QPQ verified. Hooks are formatted, of good length and interesting, with hook facts cited in article. – Reidgreg (talk) 15:18, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
- CMD (talk) 00:20, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
Filibuster discussion
editDiscussing the filibuster in the Results section looks like WP:UNDUE weight to me, especially as it's rather tangential to the referendum. I think it should be emphasized instead that a statehood bill has passage requirements no higher than any other bill. After all, the president still needs to give their signature (barring a veto override).--Jasper Deng (talk) 07:48, 6 January 2021 (UTC)