Talk:Zimbabwean presidential election, 2008
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The presidential election will probably be held in 2008, and it will be the parliamentary election that will be moved from 2010 (instead of the other way around). See here. This really shouldn't have been created in the first place, because no plan for moving the election dates has been approved yet. Everyking 15:43, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
- Sorry, it seemed quite definite at that time. We can always switch around the dates again, of course. —Nightstallion (?) 17:18, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] This article needs to be divided into sections
I think this page needs to be divided into more sections because I don't think the whole election can be fit neatly into a time line. I have added section "Allegations of vote buying" and I think another one on the voters' roll is required. Any thoughts? Eenoowendo (talk) 20:45, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
- It could definitely be organized better. It resembles a timeline more than I'd like. Everyking (talk) 02:47, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Strange behaviour
While I was editing Wikipedia did a couple strange things which I don't fully understand. Fortunately, a bot fixed it (somewhat). Does anyone know why the references and external links are invisible? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eenoowendo (talk • contribs) 16:40, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] More Sources from the Guardian
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/01/zimbabwe - Secret Mugabe meeting ponders military move or fixed result - but not an admission of defeat
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/01/zimbabwe1 - Mugabe party sources concede loss of first round
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/01/zimbabwe2 - Zimbabwe opposition in talks with military —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.29.43.3 (talk) 17:00, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Election result
VOA Africa now reports that Tsvangirai has denied succession talks with the government. WillOakland (talk) 19:04, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Who win?
Who win the election?--Martianmister (talk) 16:25, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
- The short answer is: nobody. The long answer is the article. Everyking (talk) 23:07, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
- The shortest answer is it's not relevant per WP:TALK. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 06:34, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Sources for results
Anyone have a source for by-constituency results that were posted at the polling stations ? We have them for parliamentary, I am looking for the equivalent for presidential. Wizzy…☎ 11:33, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
How about uploading photos of the results posted at polling stations? Would that be in line with Wikipedia rules? --filip (talk) 11:22, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Thank you
Just want to say how fantastic the coverage of the election has been in this article. Every contributor should be commended for their excellent work.
And as a small anecdote, I'm finding this coverage much much better than the half-baked reports from news.bbc.co.uk and all the South African websites (sabcnews.com, iol.co.za, news24.com, etc) -- for example none of these news sources has answered these questions: "Why is the ZEC not releasing the results?" "Has the ZEC got a final result for the presidential vote or not?" "What exactly was argued in the High Court? (the arguments apparently continued for hours and into the next day - for something I would have thought would be quite clear and concise), "How secure are the ballots and the results - would it be easy for someone to now get access to them and tamper with them?". -- and more questions that I now can't recall Rfwoolf (talk) 14:02, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
- Again today, I read about 5 different news sources about the Zimbabwe Election Crisis, and again, I find this Wikipedia article covers it beter!!!Rfwoolf (talk) 20:56, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
- Again I want to congratulate everybody for their sterling work on this article. This issue has been linked to on the Main Page under the news section and is a fantastic article. Well done! Rfwoolf (talk) 09:49, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
- I agree. this article is amazing. extremely extensive and eye widening. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.86.142.250 (talk) 15:58, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Odd tag
The tag at the top seems bad because this election occurred 3 weeks ago. Is there a better tag to possibly replace it with.SpencerT♦C 01:32, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- Not so easy to do anything about, the tag is added by {{Infobox Election}}, and having ongoing=yes. Since this option governs what sections of the infobox is included it would take a major rewrite of the template to included the option to override the warning tag. Taemyr (talk) 23:20, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Assessment
Glancing at the article, shouldn't this be at the very least B-class. An issue would maybe be stability. Punkmorten (talk) 17:38, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Return
Morgan Tsvangirai left from neighbouring South Africa, landed in Harare airport, and sped off in a 3-car convoy ahead of the scheduled 27 June election.Afp.google.com, Opposition leader returns to Zimbabwe --Florentino floro (talk) 10:56, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Makoni
Should we remove Simba Makoni since he was eliminated in the run-off Rizalninoynapoleon (talk) 11:03, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Splitting the article into new pages for readability
This page is 159 kb long as of 11am EST. How can we split the article? By month? By section? Either way, the article seriously needs splitting.--Thomas.macmillan (talk) 15:00, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
- I don't think it needs splitting, but we need to remove a lot of unneeded information and develop those into their own larger articles.
- Currently it is almost a running commentary of what is happening on the ground on a day to day basis, but that's not the way it should be.
- We need something like:
- First Round
- Participants
- Results
- Controversies, (violences and so forth)
- Reaction
- Second Round
- Participants
- Results
- Controversies
- Reaction
- First Round
- And remove a lot of the less important info, maybe we should look at other, less controversial elections and see what needs to be included and not. We need to only include information that would be important to a reader in 5 years time.
- Then, if we really need to we can split the article into main articles, like ZEC in the 2008 elections, Violence in the 2008 election and so on. FFMG (talk) 05:07, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] deja you
When I hear Mugabe saying regime change would never happen I am reminded that Ian Smith said the same thing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.168.240.57 (talk) 00:40, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Violent transfer of power
According to The Times, it appears Mugabe's henchmen have murdered Patson Chipiro's wife. He is head of the Zimbabwean opposition party. Willoller (talk) 06:45, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

