Talk:Mackerras pendulum

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Bennelong prediction in 2007[edit]

Mackerras claimed to have predicted the fall of Bennelong well before the 2007 election on the basis of where it sat on the pendulum [1] --Matilda ^talk 05:14, 19 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move[edit]

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The result of the move request was: moved per request. Favonian (talk) 17:37, 20 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Mackerras Pendulum → Mackerras pendulum –

Per WP:MOSCAPS ("Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization") and WP:TITLE, this is not a propriety or commercial term, so the item should be downcased. Lowercase will match the formatting of related article titles, such as Mackerras_federal_election_pendulum,_2006 and Post-election_pendulum_for_the_Queensland_state_election,_2012, among others. External sources for the downcasing abound (e.g. this), although some have clearly been influenced to upcase by this article: Tony (talk) 07:39, 13 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Support. A quick search of Google news archives has almost unanimous agreement on this one, especially on older sources (like this and this). Pretty much a no-brainer. Frickeg (talk) 04:00, 18 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Update and pictures[edit]

Possibly could use update to a current situation, and why not - include more pendulums, or even a picture of it, considering that the Swingometer page already has a picture for it.

However, I am not sure of the rules on copyright around using images online, tables on wikipedia, or whether it would just be better to copy data over to DIY