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April 24

Pennsylvania electoral College in 2000

Hi, I will be quick: if an electoral College elector had simply written "Al Gore" on a ballot, would the vote still be valid? Because I imagine, although I'm not sure, that some voters actually wrote the abbreviated name. Thank you. https://www.google.it/search?q=pennsylvania+electoral+college+2000&sxsrf=ALeKk037T3S_FFw8COLE7dQpxdc_AZLZGw:1587734747864&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiDgpPtlIHpAhU0rXEKHURnBg4Q_AUoAXoECAsQAw&biw=1964&bih=985#imgrc=lfooYLmQJaAgqM — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.41.100.198 (talk) 13:31, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The electors are a small group, and any issues with names would have been settled when they met in December. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:52, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Merger between Wikipedia versions of the same language?

Due to language secessionism, there are currently four different versions of Wikipedia in Serbo-Croatian (Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Croatian, and Bosnian). Is there currently any active effort, major or minor, to merge them into one version? How about between Malay Wikipedia and Indonesian Wikipedia? 70.95.44.93 (talk) 19:45, 24 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

And would it be written in cyrillic or in latin alphabet? 2003:F5:6F04:6400:6CD0:9822:C161:100F (talk) 20:15, 25 April 2020 (UTC) Marco PB[reply]

Theoretically, there could be some solution like in the Anglo-Saxon language Wikipedia, which is available in four different script systems (including runic), or the Gothic language one (three scripts). ⌘ _hugarheimur 20:55, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the Serbian Wikipedia is already using both Cyrillic and Latin alphabet. So, I do not see that as a problem for a possible merger. StellarHalo (talk) 02:16, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There's a lot of opposition to people writing in Latin on Serbian wikipedia, thanks to certain people who edit a lot there. And that's without questioning your brave assumption that non-Serbs would be willing to write in Cyrillic on a joint project. 93.136.55.42 (talk) 16:35, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

No, because there's no single standard to adhere to, and people would rather have their own than write in another language's standard. See Hindi and Urdu, two Norwegian wikis, two Belarusian etc. Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian are close but not as close as different varieties of English in neither spelling nor pronunciation. Differences crop up in every sentence. And then there's the rich history of using language standards in Kingdom and SFR Yugoslavia as a reason to deny self-determination and assimilate other ethnic groups into the dominant one. 93.136.55.42 (talk) 16:35, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]