Talk:2022 Hong Kong Chief Executive election

Danger of deletion

Based on the recent precedent at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2022 in the Philippines, and that apparently consensus has in fact changed, this article could be deleted. I can't begin to state how categorically I disagree with this change in consensus, but it is what it is. Bearian (talk) 01:22, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

I know the election is a setup ...

Look, I'm not under any illusions about how the Hong Kong Chief Executive is chosen. The candidates must be nominated by 188 members of the (heavily pro-Beijing) Election Committee, and be vetted for sufficient fealty to Beijing, and then win a majority in the (again, heavily pro-Beijing) Election Committee. So because the Beijing government wants John Lee to be the chief executive, he will be. But he has to actually complete the election. As shown on the Hong Kong election website at https://www.elections.gov.hk/ce2022/eng/nomination2.html , as of 5 pm, 7 April 2022, no candidate, including Lee, had yet submitted their nominations. We shouldn't call Lee "the nominee" when he hasn't submitted his nominations yet. Nor can we say that the minor candidates were not successfully nominated when they still have a week yet in which to garner nominations. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 06:33, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

Elected or Apppointed

I believe we should prefer "appointed" rather than "elected", to match reliable sources and address WP:NPOV issues. For example, the BBC says he was appointed, not an elected, as does the New York Times. BilledMammal (talk) 02:37, 9 May 2022 (UTC)