Talk:Election Day

RFD discussion: November 2020

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Election Day

(politics) The day on which a general election is held

Sum of parts. The presence of the word "general" might be flimsy grounds on which to keep this if it were true that "Election Day" could only ever refer to a general election, but I don't think it is true. Mihia (talk) 18:17, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

• Keep. I don't see how, at this capitalization, this is any more SOP than Christmas Day or Memorial Day. It's basically the proper name of the day designated for the event. bd2412 T 20:24, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Capitalisation can occur (in practice inconsistently) when one particular instance of any similar descriptive phrase is meant, as in Graduation Day, Coronation Day, Carnival Day, or even Birthday Party, and many others in the same vein, all of which can readily be found capitalised. To some extent, such capitalisation may also be influenced by the "Capitalisation of Important Words" style. Mihia (talk) 20:58, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

• • Delete, and I would delete Christmas Day too if it weren't useful as a translation hub. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 20:38, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
    • Delete per nom. Sum of parts, and nothing to indicate that it’s only for a “general” election.
  • Keep. Election Day is considered a holiday by some US states, and I kind of agree with the definition that the capitalized form can only refer to the general election. To me, Election Day and election day imply two different things: election day is a SOP, but Election Day, as a proper noun, refers to one day only. If it weren't a holiday, I'd say you could call it a sum of parts akin to Graduation Day, but the capitalization of Graduation Day feels to me like something an individual might do to form a novel proper noun (there's no widespread Graduation Day and no reason to capitalize it normally), whereas Election Day can be capitalized because could easily be construed as a proper noun (the title Election Day is understood to refer to a specific concept by a large group of people). —Globins (yo) 22:25, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Just to mention that the original US-specificness of this sense was removed per this, which, sorry, I forgot to link to. Mihia (talk) 23:29, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

• Keep. How the Grinch deleted Christmas. – Jberkel 21:01, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
• Keep. Imetsia (talk) 04:01, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
• Keep, but I wonder if sense 2 should be changed by removing the word general. Can’t the day on which the poll for a by-election is held also be called “Election Day”? — Cheers, JackLee ^–talk– 10:38, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Yes, it can, but the definition would then read "Election Day = The day on which an election is held" which is absolutely blatant sum-of-parts. Mihia (talk) 17:48, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

• Article has changed. This vote has become confused, possibly to the point of invalidation, due to the article being edited while the vote has been in progress. Originally there was one sense, the one I listed at the top of this thread. Now a US-specific sense has been added back in, and it is no longer clear whether people are voting on the first sense, the second sense, or both. We may need to begin again. Mihia (talk) 10:45, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
• Keep anyway. Editing is permitted during an RFD discussion; I have just added a lemming. DonnanZ (talk) 12:38, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Editing may be permitted, but it is unhelpful when edits apparently change without notice the entire nature or purpose of the RFD, with no clear indication to voters that this has happened, and no explanation of how earlier votes are now to be interpreted. Mihia (talk) 12:53, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

• Withdrawn by nominator for reasons mentioned above. I may renominate just the original sense. Mihia (talk) 17:48, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

• Keep. It is the name of a holiday. Merriam-Webster's online dictionary has an entry for this. 172.58.171.182 03:14, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
• Keep. The RFD was withdrawn but I just thought I'd add my 2c. -- Dentonius (my politics | talk) 18:28, 8 November 2020 (UTC)