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- Regarding the Portuguese election, I see that "narrow plurality" has been changed to "wins the most seats." We were already discussing whether "narrow plurality" sounded too positive for what was practically a loss, so I am very surprised to see it changed to make it sound like a full-on victory. Could we change this back? Or am I looking at these results wrong? ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 13:34, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
- Plurality is not a well understood term, so it always gets changed. Stephen 09:10, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
- "wins the most seats" doesn't mean "full-on victory", but I think your point is that some people will misinterpret that to mean "majority". A concise way to address that would be to mention the actual percentage, except historically blurbs have shied away from mentioning actual numbers (casualty counts are mentioned). —Bagumba (talk) 09:50, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
- I don't see a problem with this myself. "Wins the most seats" in no way implies a majority, and we don't have to tie ourselves in knots to explain something that I don't think has caused any confusion so far anyway. Certainly I'd oppose going back to "plurality", for the exact reasons it was changed in the first place. That really isn't a well-understood term. By all accounts, the Democratic Alliance is also set to form the government, if I'm not mistaken, so the assertion that it was "practically a loss" doesn't seem correct. — Amakuru (talk) 12:31, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
- Putin securing a fifth term makes it sound like the outcome of the election was not predetermined. Note that the article instead uses the prase gaining a fifth term. Perhaps one might also consider something like His fifth term as president begins on 7 May 2024. —St.Nerol (talk, contribs) 10:01, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
- There are similar ongoing comments at the ITNC nom.—Bagumba (talk) 10:34, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
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