[EM] "Instant-runoff voting" article renamed to "Ranked-choice voting" on English Wikipedia

[Chris Benham]

I gather that "Instant Runoff Voting" was originally a promotional name 
in the US that after being used for a long time was changed (for some 
reason I forget) to Ranked Choice Voting.

So I don't see the name change as negative, unless it results in more 
people reading the horrible pompous hatchet-job of an article.

I now like to refer to the method as simply "Hare".   I rate it as much 
better than FPP, Approval,  Score, Bucklin,  "STAR Voting", and some of 
the relatively bad Condorcet methods (such as Min-Max Margins).

Chris B.

On 18/10/2024 2:34 pm, Michael Garman wrote:
> There are far more important things to worry about than this. That’s 
> my two cents.
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2024 at 12:03 AM Rob Lanphier <roblan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Hi folks,
>
>     Those of us who pay attention to voting related articles on
>     Wikipedia recently noticed this:
>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting
>     <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked%E2%80%90choice_voting>
>
>     It would seem that Closed Limelike Curves made an executive
>     decision to rename the "Instant-runoff voting" article to
>     "Ranked-choice voting".  As I've said in at least one
>     conversation: this isn't a hill that I'm going to die on.  That
>     said, based on a recent conversation I'm thinking of, there's at
>     least one person that IS willing to die on the hill.
>
>     Thoughts?
>
>     Rob
>
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