Talk:Results of the 2008 Malaysian state elections by constituency

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Requested move 23 June 2015

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The result of the move request was: Moved. I am personally opposed to these ridiculously long names for election results (an objection raised in the sister move request), but the precedent exists in scores of other articles. More concise wording should probably be achieved by making a mass-move request. — kwami (talk) 19:38, 4 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(non-admin closure) Malaysian state elections, 2008 → Results of the 2008 Malaysian general election by state constituency – Like Results of the 2008 Malaysian general election by parliamentary constituency, it is better title. Relisted. Jenks24 (talk) 14:46, 10 July 2015 (UTC) --Relisted. George Ho (talk) 04:47, 30 June 2015 (UTC) Alexander Iskandar (talk) 20:55, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I would be happy with forking this information (although preferably to "Results of the Malaysian state elections, 2008" rather than the awkward title proposed) if a briefer summary article can be created to replace it in line with Malaysian state elections, 2004, which is infinitely more readable. Until that happens, I think this is the best place for it (I moved this article to its current title today; it could have been moved back but an editor tried a cut & paste move instead, which meant the target is now blocked). Number 5 7 21:45, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Clearly 2 different things. In any case, the 2008 Election article needs to be expanded, and the table moved to the Results article. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 01:01, 24 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - The name should not have been changed in the first place, the previous name is a better title. The page is for results is for state elections that was held as the same time as the general elections in Malaysia. There is also no need to expand the page and most of the information can be found in the main election articles- Malaysian general election, 2008,Malaysian general election, 2013. Also I reiterate that this discussion should not even be taking place at all. No consensus was made with the previous name change. Results of the 2008 Malaysian general election by state constituency → Malaysian state elections, 2008. Lazybugger13 (talk) 15:33, 24 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Although parliamentary and state elections in Malaysia are two different entities, the polling take place at the same time. This means that each voter casts two ballot papers (one for parliamentary and one for state constituency) on the polling day. Therefore, the issues affecting the results of state constituencies are already addressed in Malaysian general election, 2013. Therefore, this page should only be dedicated to results of state constituencies only. I proposed that this page should be renamed as Results of the Malaysian state assembly elections, 2008 because "state" is a very vague term. I can meant either "nation" or "federated states".Cerevisae (talk) 14:04, 16 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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