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June 3[edit]

False claims of election fraud[edit]

In some countries, false claims of election fraud are used to undermine legitimate elections. Examples would be Donald Trump in the 2020 USA presidential election and the 2021 coup in Myanmar.

What is this phenomenon called? I am looking for more information and examples on Wikipedia, but could not find.

Disloyal opposition? ---Sluzzelin talk 08:44, 3 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

There's something at Delegitimisation (which is currently inconsistent between UK and US spellings, though "z" is also used in the UK -- see Oxford spelling)... AnonMoos (talk) 11:14, 3 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

AnonMoos, I added that something to the "Delegitimisation" article because someone at the Help Desk pointed me to that article. But it got deleted. I think no point contributing it to Wikipedia when I am just looking for more information about this, not an expert. -- 14:21, 4 June 2021 219.74.217.15

UK legislation formatting...[edit]

Hi..

In order to potentially write a style guide for Wikisource, I am after a link, or document name as to what the official style guide for drafting or typsetting UK legislation is (or was historically.)

Amongst the things I want to resolve are the indentation and text formatting of various paragraphs, clauses and divisions, and subdivisions in General Acts, and the layout used for side-headings and marginal citations on older works ( such as whether they appear on the left or right.).

Ideally, what I'd like a links/citations to actual doduments as opposed to a lengthy discussion. ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 12:05, 3 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You are almost certainly aware of this, but recent UK legislation is online at https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ - there's a plethora of example Acts there.--Phil Holmes (talk) 14:04, 3 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Guide To Revised Legislation has a section called "Presentation of Text" (p. 21/27). Alansplodge (talk) 18:43, 3 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]