Talk:Indre-et-Loire's 3rd constituency

Degree of precision

Hi @Mélencron: — I think style used in English-language sources is more appropriate than the style used by the French Ministry of the Interior. Has consensus been established elsewhere that Wikipedia's voice should echo Ministry of the Interior style? If so I won't push the point, but two decimal places is not standard in English-language election reporting. Ralbegen (talk) 15:56, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

I mean, this is a French election and all French-language sources I know of usually conform to this practice (though estimations of the results are only to one digit), and I don't really know of any English-language sources that really report French election results (I can't find any sites reporting constituency results of the French legislative elections, for instance). Maybe the AFP in English, but they're also using two digits. Mélencron (talk) 16:00, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

It's a French election, but on English Wikipedia English-language sources take precedence. I still think it looks unnecessarily clumsy, but given the AFP source you've presented I'm less concerned about the two decimal place style. Ralbegen (talk) 16:06, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

I don't think there's really much consistency within Wikipedia on this matter anyway – the German federal election articles use a mix of one- and two-digit precision even though the federal returning officer only publishes up to one digit, and the articles on Spanish elections stick to a single digit in the infobox even though the sources use two digits (and so do the actual results tables in the articles). It's not a major issue to me, and I just prefer to stick to what's published by official sources. Mélencron (talk) 16:16, 28 April 2018 (UTC)