Talk:2012 Egyptian presidential election

Mubarak is out
As of February 2, Hosni Mubarak has declared that he will not run in the 2011 presidential election and will ensure that other candidates have the freedom to do so. his son, Gamal, will likely never be able to show his face in Egypt again also.--99.141.201.157 (talk) 23:38, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * A nice detailed article, which unfortunately (or maybe happily) now needs to be completely changed. --Physics is all gnomes (talk) 00:28, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Rewritten
I wrote the first draft of the article back in 2009 and worked on it since then. Seeing how radical changes have happened in the Egyptian political system in the recent weeks, the entire article needs to be rewritten. -- The Egyptian Liberal (talk) 01:29, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Title
What's up with the change of the article title, all the articles about elections all over the world, including Egypt have the year at the end of the title, it should be the same way here.--189.216.8.233 (talk) 18:54, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Good catch, but all of the 2011 Egyptian revolution articles have that format. Either one is fine, but it'd be nice if they were all consistent.  I'll change it back if there's support to do so.  Ocaasi c 21:06, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

I agree so it should be 2012 egyptian presidential election. MohammedBinAbdullah (talk) 16:34, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
 * All election articles follow the format "Fooian presidential election, XXXX", and this is no exception. Number   5  7  17:50, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

For any event you have to add the year before this is wikipedia rule. For example MohammedBinAbdullah (talk) 11:36, 31 May 2012 (UTC)
 * 2012 houla massacre
 * 2007–2012 global financial crisis
 * 1992−1994 operation clean-up
 * 2012 lyari operation
 * It's not the rule for election articles. See Category:Elections in Egypt, and other similar categories. Number   5  7  14:01, 31 May 2012 (UTC)

Election monitoring section
I'm going to go ahead and remove it, unless somebody else objects. Gamal Mubarak no longer holds any position of power in Egypt, and I have a difficult time believing the Egyptian public will allow his decision to not have any election monitors stand. It's just outdated information. -Kudzu1 (talk) 11:45, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Needs more references
The references given do not provide information on all of the candidates and backgrounds. Furthermore, citations are not in appropriate places(after bits of important information or stated facts). To improve this article, it would be best to add more references from reliable sources and citations where needed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.226.223.72 (talk) 22:53, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

Polling numbers don't add up.
the  Oct 2011 	ACPSS poll seems to have some inaccurate numbers. If you add up all the percentages they are over %100. The source where the data seems to have been taken from does not list an "other" category. This seems to be the source of the error. I'm changing the other so that it says %5.5 since the listed candidates add up to 94.5% [44.8,13.2,3.2,3.5,10.8,5.2,4.7,5.7,5.0,1.6]. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.49.34.123 (talk) 21:59, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

delete "Potential candidates" section?
candidates registration deadline has passet - shoudn't "Potential candidates" section be deleted? --93.173.154.188 (talk) 17:58, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Bothaina Kamel
Why is Bothaina Kamel not on the list of candidates? Has she failed to satisfy the requirements or has she withdrawn? --RJFF (talk) 20:15, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Ahmed Shafik back in race
Here is a link: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/04/2012425213117151622.html 69.225.92.108 (talk) 23:32, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Second Round Polling?
The new Al Ahram poll contains polling on several potential second-round match-ups. The article is here: http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/41592/Egypt/Politics-/AbulFotouh-dips,-Moussa-holds-steady-in-Ahram-pres.aspx I propose we add a section containing polling on second-round match-ups.Liberal92 (talk) 00:15, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

biased materials
this article contains intential biased materials towards several candidates,for example it descripes amr mousa and ahmed shafiq as "فلول" which egyptians use to indicate people who were loyal and part of the previous system,such claim isn't proved as some of them were indeed part of the previous system but not loyal to it. here on wikipedia articles should be written in nuteral manner without being biased towards any thing. please consider reviewing this article and please add a note of it's in nutralty. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.42.29.10 (talk) 23:53, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Results are here
Egyptian 2012 1st round presidential results

maybe someone can fix that in to the post somehow — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.145.2.198 (talk) 22:20, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Yug (talk)  22:50, 25 May 2012 (UTC)


 * These results are not final and are not official--المصري الأصيل (talk) 03:19, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Fair use candidate from Commons: File:Ahmed Shafik 2.jpg
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Continuity of Name Spellings
While I realize that transliterating is not an easy task, and that there are multiple ways to do so. However, I think the article would look a lot cleaner if there were constant spellings throughout. Is one of the standards here used more often than the others? Otherwise I suggest we use the UN Conference on Standardization of Geographic Names purely out of a personal preference or simply whichever romalization that is on their respective Wikipedia articles if one exists. Stujames (talk) 05:50, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Quick example: Mohamed Morsi (محمد محمد مرسى عيسى العياط‎) has multiple spellings, as does most everyone else. Stujames (talk) 05:55, 27 May 2012 (UTC)


 * But Mohamed Morsi is the most popular check out google search. MohammedBinAbdullah (talk) 16:38, 30 May 2012 (UTC)


 * I'd just go with the most common spelling. "Mohamed Morsi" for example is the most commonly used, and it's the spelling used by the Muslim Brotherhood's English website. Trinitresque (talk) 01:20, 25 June 2012 (UTC)

Minor candidates
The figures at al-Ahram giving results by governorate (http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/42755.aspx) only show votes cast for the eight minor candidates in seven governorates. Is this because they weren't on the ballot paper in the other governorates, or are al-Ahram's figures incomplete? Intelligent Mr Toad (talk) 12:06, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

Ahmed Shafiq picture
The Ahmed Shafiq picture is worse than no picture by leaps and bounds. It does not provide a true representation of Ahmed Shafiq. It shows a distorted image of him with black markings and an entire chin and philtrum region that is almost completely fake. The black markings on his lips in particular distorts his facial expression to make him look like he's scowling. I'm not away of any Wikipedia policy that promotes the use of images that double as political cartoons to depict a person, so this image has no place on this article. Trinitresque (talk) 23:21, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR)
I've done some work (re)establishing an ECESR stub article and would like to invite editors with an interest in such topics to help expand upon it. --Kevjonesin (talk) 05:56, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

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Fairness Section
Has no-one noticed the tiny section on Fairness? At the time it was a substantially debated issue, a hot topic for many people; it may have even indirectly contributed to the protests in 2013. Omnicon1 (talk) 05:56, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

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April 2024
@HorusFalcon1776: please explain here why you keep deleting this detail for no apparent reason. A warning has been posted on your talk page about edit-warring; please do not do this again without explaining here first. R Prazeres (talk) 08:25, 4 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Prazers, I don’t have to explain why the Egyptian Army was called the Royal Egyptian Army during the Mohamed Ali Dynasty, it’s common sense as Egypt was a monarchy at the time. My friend, go to Anwar Sadat’s Wikipedia and you will find “Royal Egyptian Army” on his allegiance list. I’m not adding information my brain is inventing. Trust me I’m adding facts my friend. HorusFalcon1776 (talk) 09:28, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
 * about the 2012 election, I am the one who added the information about the military rule which lasted from 1952 to the 2012 election. A warning has been posted on your talk page edit-warring. HorusFalcon1776 (talk) 13:02, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Ok, much of that was nonsensical. But I take it you're saying that this IP edit was yours. If so, then why didn't you explain that after you were reverted and asked to clarify here? It seems to me like your original wording would be more useful for readers, but I don't particularly care at this point. The claim is misattributed, however, to the cited source at the end of that paragraph, which doesn't talk about this, so this needs a slight adjustment. R Prazeres (talk) 16:15, 4 April 2024 (UTC)