I was trying to imagine what [[template:In the News]] is going to look like come election night, and my mental projections are not good. I'd like to suggest a few common sense things that we should agree upon *now* while we still have plenty of time to agrue about it:
1) Template:In the News should have a single link to [[2000 election in progress]] or a page to that effect. Rather than having people in a deathmatch to edit the main page template, they can fight there instead.
2) Absolutely no one is allowed to call any states until 24 (or more) hours after the polls close.
3) I also suspect there's going to be a lot of vandalism to the main page templates (especially in-the-news), so we might consider protecting it in advance (or at first sign of trouble) for the duraction of the election.
--Mark
Mark Pellegrini wrote:
- Absolutely no one is allowed to call any states until 24 (or more) hours
after the polls close.
I don't see any reason for this rule. We, as Wikipedia, are not going to be calling any states, and some Wikipedians running statistical projections on their own would of course be original research we don't publish. But if some major news organization calls states, we can report what they said and attribute it to them.
-Mark
Mark, good to see some planning on this early on. I think these are very good guidelines. It would also be nice to set up some boilerplate configurations with sections and such, so we can avoid edit conflicts as much as possible too.
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 02:47:41 -0400, Mark Pellegrini mapellegrini@comcast.net wrote:
I was trying to imagine what [[template:In the News]] is going to look like come election night, and my mental projections are not good. I'd like to suggest a few common sense things that we should agree upon *now* while we still have plenty of time to agrue about it:
- Template:In the News should have a single link to [[2000 election in
progress]] or a page to that effect. Rather than having people in a deathmatch to edit the main page template, they can fight there instead.
- Absolutely no one is allowed to call any states until 24 (or more) hours
after the polls close.
- I also suspect there's going to be a lot of vandalism to the main page
templates (especially in-the-news), so we might consider protecting it in advance (or at first sign of trouble) for the duraction of the election.
--Mark
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Mark Pellegrini stated for the record:
- Absolutely no one is allowed to call any states until
24 (or more) hours after the polls close.
With 0.00% of the polls reporting in, we can now state with certainty that Massachusetts' 12 electoral votes will go to Kerry.
If this policy is followed should it cover all elections in all countries?