Talk:2009 Macanese legislative election

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NPOV[edit]

Nice job on the article. However, I feel it is slightly biased. Anyone want to help expand the communist point of view? F (talk) 06:46, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Biased[edit]

Hi, I admit what I wrote concentrates on the pro-democracy camp and the Macanese lists. That's because my sources are mostly the Portuguese-language media and they rarely have reports on the pro-Beijing camp. If someone can translate materials from the Chinese-language media, it would be excellent. 20:00, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Unique to Macao?[edit]

Someone mentioned the electoral system is unique to Macao. I thought Hong Kong had the same system for the direct seats, namely largest remainder method with divisors 1,2,4,8,etc. Can someone verify? 20:00, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

Nope, the Macao method is called highest averages with modified d'Hondt formula. The HK method is the largest remainder using the Hare quota. F (talk) 12:11, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

English names?[edit]

Seeing this is the English Wikipedia, would it be a good idea to use the English names of the parties/groups? For groups without English names, should we provide a translation? F (talk) 12:12, 19 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's a good point. However, there is no official English translation for the party names. Some have their own unofficial translations, eg, "Voz Plural - Gentes de Macau" call themselves "Plural voices of Macau" although the literal translation is "Plural Voices - People of Macau" whereas "Observatório Cívico" call themselves "civic watch" which is again not quite the literal meaning of their Portuguese name. How could we avoid such confusions?
Maybe use the translation on their pamphlet/website, if any, otherwise translate it ourselves? Are there any English media in Macao? There's a blog with all 16 group names in English. F (talk) 05:25, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why 'Highest Average'?[edit]

Why do we call the divisors 1,2,4,8,... 'highest average'? This Macarene divisor series, unique becasue it discouraging large parties, has nothing to do with the 'higest average' resulting from the application of the D'Hondt divisor series. (With a genuine highest averages method, the last seat awarded to a party is the average cost of a seat for all parties)--Bancki (talk) 08:23, 19 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Why sub?[edit]

Why are the political party/affiliations tagged with <sub>? I can understand maybe wanting to create a difference in appearance between the English and Portugese and Chinese in some places (though they are already distinguished by italics and sub is not really the right way to make them smaller if that is needed), but the Geographical constituencies table has all three items in the party affiliation cells tagged this way. Shouldn't at least the first line be full-size? —[AlanM1(talk)]— 07:33, 11 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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