Talk:2009 Montreal municipal election

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I plan to add results when http://www.election-montreal.qc.ca announces that all polls have been counted (which is taking forEVER), so that we can add numerical results at the same time. -- Montréalais (talk) 15:57, 2 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Actually, scratch that. Folks are already adding "leading" results, so let's just add all the numerical results at the same time when they're validated in a few days. - Montréalais (talk) 16:08, 2 November 2009 (UTC)


 * Just for clarity's sake, our policy regarding election articles is as follows:
 * The colour bar can be added to a winner's name as soon as a reliable media source declares them the winner; we can easily remove it again if they retract the call. However, once a reliable media source has made that call we don't require all polls to be in for this step.
 * We don't add actual numbers of votes per candidate to the article until the final results come back from whichever official body is responsible for validating and publishing the final numbers. We don't have the necessary human resources here to really stay on top of keeping the article constantly updated with running results on election night — and per WP:NOT, it isn't really our responsibility or role to even attempt it anyway. Our job here is to summarize the long view of history once the game is over, not to provide the live play-by-play.
 * We don't (and shouldn't) do anything to denote people who are merely leading the vote, if no source has yet declared them elected.
 * Not that I think you didn't know that or anything — but some other people might not be familiar with our standard practice. Bearcat (talk) 22:50, 9 November 2009 (UTC)