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Is this really the best title scheme we can come up with for these pages? "Next (country name) election"...? Doesn't seem particularly encyclopaedic. Surely we can come up with something better? - wolf 07:03, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Just looking to see if there were any responses so far and... nada. This title just seems... clunky. Since no one seems to care either way, I think I'll wait a few more days and then just move it, to something like... "List of upcoming general elections", or "List of pending general elections", or something like that. Something that is better and less... not better. - wolf 06:58, 4 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's the list of the next election in each country, so 'list of next general elections', that way it's just the next general election in each country, it's not a list of the closest general elections. I quite like the title. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.173.243.57 (talk) 23:02, 27 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

List needs a reformat

There's no reason to divide the list into regions, it hinders us from arranging the elections in chronological order and seeing whatever one is next in the world, instead we have to tediously do it per region. A column called 'region' can be added for those who want to see the list by region. It should also be ordered by date by defeault. And dates which are just the year should be at the end of that year, not at the beginning, seeing a they won't be the actual next election. I don't know how to do these things, and I'm guessing this message will lie uncommented and probably unread for years, so I may learn how, then come back and make the changes myself after a while. - 37.173.243.57 (talk) 23:05, 27 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Generate list from Wikidata

I'm not sure if this has been discussed before. Wikidata has excellent coverage on future elections and could be used to automatically generate this list. I did an experiment here. These list-like articles are perfect candidates for Wikidata-generated content IMO. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. Popperipopp (talk) 12:46, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]