Talk:Ranked-choice voting

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Example usage of ranked-choice voting as synonym of STV

Opinion: Making Portland into a city that works for all of us 01:27, 6 July 2022 (UTC) HudecEmil (talk) 01:27, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Too short for a DAB

@Mx. Granger WP:ONEOTHER advises against very short disambiguation pages like this, which can be replaced with a redirect and a hatnote, so is there a reason you chose to make this a DAB? – Closed Limelike Curves (talk) 23:10, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

you have linked to WP:ONEOTHER, but the DAB clearly contains two (which is greater than one) other usage of the term. if you scroll down the page and read WP:TWOOTHER, you will see

> If there are two or three other topics, it is still possible to use a hatnote which lists the other topics explicitly, but if this would require too much text (roughly, if the hatnote would extend well over one line on a standard page), then it is better to create a disambiguation page and refer only to that.

Thus Wikipedia policy here suggests that a DAB is appropriate. Affinepplan (talk) 23:27, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like we're in luck and can redirect, since these fit on one line quite easily!

– Closed Limelike Curves (talk) 01:15, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

STV is not "the proportional variant of Ranked-choice voting." it is the proportional variant of IRV, which is a specific kind of ranked-choice voting. and this ambiguity is exactly the purpose of a disambiguation page to disambiguate. Affinepplan (talk) 01:24, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The guideline you linked is for cases where there is a primary topic, which I don't think is the case here. Moreover, in this case, because the topics are closely related, the terminology is confusing, and the subject matter is relatively complex, I think there's a larger-than-usual risk of readers ending up at the wrong page and not realizing it. For many ambiguous titles, a redirect plus hatnote is enough, but in this case the added risk of confusion is part of why I think the disambiguation page (or set index) is helpful. —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 04:42, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]