Interista~enwiki

Welcome!

Hello, Interista, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:

• Introduction to Wikipedia
• The five pillars of Wikipedia
• How to edit a page and How to develop articles
• How to create your first article
• Simplified Manual of Style

Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{help me}} before the question. Again, welcome!

October 2013

Hello, I'm BracketBot. I have automatically detected that your edit to Gotthard Road Tunnel may have broken the syntax by modifying 1 "()"s. If you have, don't worry: just edit the page again to fix it. If I misunderstood what happened, or if you have any questions, you can leave a message on my operator's talk page.

List of unpaired brackets remaining on the page:

• Bruno Saba, who survived the fire, kept on driving as he was afraid his diesel might catch fire. (Confusion over whether petrol or diesel was in the truck that was hit stems for a mistranslation of

Thanks, BracketBot (talk) 22:01, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Your account will be renamed

Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Interista. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Interista~enwiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name. If you think you might own all of the accounts with this name and this message is in error, please visit Special:MergeAccount to check and attach all of your accounts to prevent them from being renamed.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

00:42, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Renamed

This account has been renamed as part of single-user login finalisation. If you own this account you can log in using your previous username and password for more information. If you do not like this account's new name, you can choose your own using this form after logging in: Special:GlobalRenameRequest. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

14:04, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Coalition or Electoral Alliance

As per Wikipedia's definition of coalition: "A coalition is a pact or treaty among individuals or groups, during which they cooperate in joint action, each in their own self-interest, joining forces together for a common cause. This alliance may be temporary or a matter of convenience. A coalition thus differs from a more formal covenant. Possibly described as a joining of 'factions', usually those with overlapping interests rather than opposing." Whereas an electoral alliance may also refer to a coalition, but is a more wider term which also includes other forms of cooperation (i.e. Two parties promising to don't oppose each other in some electoral districts would be an electoral alliance, but it would not necessarily be a coalition since both parties would still stand separately). Such a kind of alliance is not refered as "coalition" just in Portugal; in Spain it is frequently used in such a way too, as does other notable examples such as Australia's current governing coalition, which are actually several parties which stand together in elections as a single list.

Of course, you would have to differentiate between a coalition formed before an election and a coalition formed after the election to form a common government. The current PSD/PP pact is both an electoral alliance and, within the different kinds of electoral alliances possible, it would be a coalition. Cheers. Impru20 (talk) 12:28, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

Portugal's electoral system is similar to Spain in the sense that both of them have closed-list at district level systems. It is actually very easy for a party to not stand in a given district in order to not oppose another party in that given district. This has frequently happened between UPN and PP in Navarre until recently, or between PSOE and PSC in Catalonia. I believe this has also happened in Portugal at the local level. So yes, if they wished to stand separately and don't fight each other in some districts, they could do so, but they have never done so for now.

As you say, when two parties in the UK and USA "field separate candidates but never in the same constituency" is an "alliance", and that's exactly what I'm telling you that is. It is an alliance, one of many kinds of possible electoral alliances. An electoral coalition for an election implies much closer cooperation and a joint list agreement (that's actually what the PSD and CDS-PP are doing). I don't know where the possible issue is.

PS: Again, please, don't confuse a coalition from a coalition government. An electoral coalition is a type of electoral alliance made before an election, while a coalition government is an agreement reached after an election. Impru20 (talk) 13:20, 21 June 2015 (UTC)