Talk:House of the People (Afghanistan)

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The statement that "It consists of 249 delegates directly elected through a system of proportional representation." seems to contradict "Members are elected by district and serve for five years.", which implies something along the lines of first past the post, or other constituency based election. Finally Afghanistan parliamentary election, 2005 cites all members as being "non partizans", which is practically impossible if proportional representation is used, since it requires voting by (party) list. 68.39.174.238 04:47, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

The Afghan elections were conducted by Single Non-Transferable Vote (SNTV) : each voter can vote for one candidate nothwithstanding there are mutliple seats at stake in every constituency. This can lead to a result similar to PR. --Bancki 12:28, 12 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Ahh, I see. That explains the problem. 68.39.174.238 23:29, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

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The result of the move request was: No consensus, pages not moved  Ron h jones (Talk) 23:19, 27 June 2010 (UTC)

House of the People (Afghanistan) → Wolesi Jirga — Using a translation of the local names of these organizations is confusing. It is an error-magnet. We don't do this with the Duma, or the various Diets, or the Althing, or other National Assemblies that have local names. The excellent reason we don't do this is that it imposes an unnecessary cognitive burden on readers. It is error prone. I suggested renaming Category:Members of the House of the People (Afghanistan) to Category:Meshrano Jirga representatives a few months ago. Respondents there felt the category should follow the name of the article. IMO both the article and category should have been renamed. Note: I didn't do this on purpose, but I made a mistake back then. I should have recommended Category:Members of the House of the People (Afghanistan) be replaced by Category:Wolesi Jirga representatives. I am currently doing some work on these articles, and I continue to have to pause, to try to remember which is the upper house and which is the lower house. Even so, I often get it wrong. Geo Swan (talk) 15:00, 14 June 2010 (UTC) Geo Swan (talk) 15:00, 14 June 2010 (UTC)


 * House of Elders → Meshrano Jirga


 * Support - per nom. ʘ alaney2k  ʘ ( talk ) 22:53, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment It appears that when one of the particular houses of Afghanistan's parliament is mentioned in the news, the translation is usually used. This is not really relevant, but "Diet" is English, and "Althing" is an Anglicisation of Alþingi. &mdash;innotata 20:32, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Suggested title is confusing, and goes against WP:ENGLISH. The current title is easier to understand (since this is English Wikipedia), and is more descriptive. --WikiDonn (talk) 05:58, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
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The section entitled "Members of Parliament"...
I suggest the section entitled "Members of Parliament" be renamed. They aren't strictly speaking "members of parliament", anymore than they are "congressmen". Representatives, or some variation thereof, would work for me.

Cheers! Geo Swan (talk) 11:43, 19 June 2010 (UTC)

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