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The Big headline in the NY Times is that Merkel has said that she would rather have new elections than have a minority government. So...we should start getting ready to drasticly alter this article. Arglebargle79 (talk) 12:01, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi,

Genuinely not trying to be disruptive here; I'm wondering why you say the term "elections" is more common than simply "election"? To me, the prior seems to imply that either multiple elections are taking place on the same day as opposed to a single one and seems more appropriate for elections which either coincide with another on the same day (general elections where both the composition of parliaments and selection of a president are determined), or are held on more than a single day (two-round elections or ones that take place over multiple days). Mélencron (talk) 15:51, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The term "elections" is commonly used to refer to a single election both in the media and academic work. This has been discussed a few times before and is why, for instance, many articles start with the title "Federal elections/General elections/Parliamentary elections were held in Fooland on [date]". Cheers, Number 57 15:55, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm familiar with that, but I'm not convinced as to how that's necessarily more logical than merely using "election" in most cases, given that the plural form is somewhat less commonly used (from a quick Google test) and that this refers to only a single election. It is admittedly mostly a matter of preference for me. Mélencron (talk) 16:02, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's not a question of logic (as both terms have exactly the same meaning), it's simply down to a choice of terminology. Number 57 16:09, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree, but I'm not going to pursue this further. Mélencron (talk) 16:15, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm uncertain how the German elections work, but in the UK, in some senses, each constituency in a general election is a separate election in its own right. So elections is appropriate. The same applies in many other countries. Bondegezou (talk) 17:58, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

okay....there are two types of electoral methods in Germany's federal elections: First, there's the landwide proportional ones, each voter votes for a party and the seats get divied up that way. Second there's single constituency elections, which are first past the post. Two different elections.Arglebargle79 (talk) 14:38, 22 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hey all. Sorry for asking this Question which is not relevant to the Article, but I have been trying to generate a graph for Cypriot Elections 2018 at the Greek version of Wikipedia, and it is a little bit confusion. How can someone create such a graph? Is there a tool within the WP or should someone create it in an extra-WP page and upload the picture afterwards? Thank you. Τζερόνυμο (talk) 09:26, 22 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]