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Endashes in date ranges

Hello.

Thanks for you many contributions to Nationwide opinion polling for the Republican Party 2016 presidential primaries. Please see MOS:DATERANGE for how date ranges should be written.

Thank you.

HandsomeFella (talk) 12:29, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

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2 Results Maps

Why are there 2 result maps by county?DrFargi (talk) 16:17, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

Map1

File:2016 Republican Primary County Map.png

Map2

Unspaced endash

Hello.

Thanks for keeping opinion polling articles up to date, but please see MOS:DATERANGE about spacing issues for the dates. It specifically says:

• Other "pure" ranges use an unspaced en dash as well:
  • day–day: 5–7 January 1979; January 5–7, 1979; elections were held March 5–8

The endash should only be spaced when a date range is between dates in different months:

• If at least one of the items on either side of the en dash is in a mixed format (containing two or more of day, month, year); carries a modifier such as c.; or otherwise contains a space; then a spaced en dash ({{snd}}) is used:
  • between specific dates in different months: They travelled June 3 – August 18, 1952; They travelled 3 June – 18 August 1952

Regards

HandsomeFella (talk) 08:14, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

linkrot on polling page

You're missing something: maintaining citation format is just a stylistic choice. In essence, all the information needed to verify is already on the page - polster and poll dates. As the url is just a convenience, the poll should not be removed if it rots. Rami R 06:32, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

Stylistic choice????? Convenience????? Since when has this been alright to do referencing without proper citations, dates, etc? Why are we condoning this all along without taking any action? And why is this template located on top of the article in the first place.

DrFargi (talk) 13:54, 18 June 2016 (UTC)

I'm not saying we shouldn't maintain proper citation format. I'm saying that improper citation format is not a reason to remove a poll. Dates, publisher and url are already in the article; as such the information is verifiable and should not be removed, regardless of citation format or linkrot. Rami R 06:32, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Here we were lucky. If there wasn't a backup poll link, we would have lost the source altogether. That's why proper citation is needed for the polls. We shouldn't tolerate the improper links.DrFargi (talk) 10:50, 27 June 2016 (UTC)

References

I had assumed you were a bot, due to the multiple templates per page (sometimes within a paragraph of one another) and their inconsistent application. I am glad to see that my editing history has been utilized to make application less inconsistent. If one looks at election articles going as far back as 2004, the current format has consistently been the format for including polls in articles; this is why, even after the external links template you utilized was included, editors continued to add polls in the same way they have done for a decade.

As the external links page shows, there is no issue with including candidates' websites, which seems to have been clarified. The issue, therefore, is polls. The same eternal links page shows nothing for or against including polls in the way they have been. I am by no means opposed to changing the format, but this may be something to be taken up with an administrator, considering the volume of articles which will need to be altered (over four-hundred, if one only looks at American gubernatorial and senatorial elections), as well as the established habits of other editors. As has been demonstrated over the past week, individual editors are likely to ignore the template message. It may be best for you to place these articles into the external links cleanup maintenance page if you have an issue with them, rather than add multiple templates per page. ALPolitico (talk) 17:28, 15 August 2016 (UTC)

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