Wikipedia:Peer review/Voter turnout/archive1

Voter turnout[edit]

An important, and also quite complex issue which I am trying to bring up to FA quality. Most of the sources I used focused on the United States, and I hope the article isn't too Amerocentric. It's also not ideal that the best images we have of people voting were produced by the American military for propaganda purposes. The article also likely needs some copyediting. - SimonP 18:57, 26 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Some controversial claims need to be cited to a source; e.g. "It has long been the consensus view among political scientists, and the general public, that high voter turnouts are desirable." (more or less repeated in the lead) Christopher Parham (talk) 00:03, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- A sentence like this will also have to detail what it means by "long" and what it means by "desirable." Christopher Parham (talk) 15:04, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I think there may be a typo in the graph on voter turnout. There are two *** footnotes at the bottom, but no **** footnote. I presume the second *** footnote should actually be a ****, but I didn't want to mess with the table myself. —thames 13:48, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The heading for the Table—'Election turnout in lower house elections from 1960 to 1995 for selected countries'—drop the last three words as redundant; specify that the data are for federal elections for the several federal systems; three or four asterisks for the US?

Reference citations required where you say 'political scientists say ... ' etc.

Distinguish between percentage and percentage point: I think you mean the latter at the top. Tony 13:59, 27 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Structure is a lot better then most articles I see come through here - great job! The only thing I can say is that the list in "Decreasing Turnout" should be turned into prose. Ryan Norton ^{T | @ | C} 14:54, 28 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]