Talk:Opinion polling for the 2020 Slovak parliamentary election

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Je nas Viac party

Should we be adding that party as it has not been officially registered? Even the name is not known, its just a monicker that Kiska uses and the whole future of it is still not known. EllsworthSK (talk) 16:30, 8 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Informal polls

Recently, an unregistered account removed two "exploratory" polls that included HLAS-SD before it was created or had a name.

However, we do not need to be constrained by absolute formality. Large, newly-founded parties do not need to be legally created and to be have picked up a name, to be talked about and matter.

Scientifically speaking, it may be argued that these polls do not weigh as much, because the name wasn't known, etc. In any case, we can add an explanatory footnote (template:efn) that details the exact wording of the poll. In this particular case, the numbers for HLAS-SD seem to be in the same range before and after the name reveal (21%, 19% before, then 16%), which seems to show that these polls demonstrate that HLAS-SD was a big thing in Slovakia even before it had a name, thus are worth adding.

They do not need to be put in a special section for "scenarios". The reason is simple. With the rowspan attribute and a highlight color, we can easily compare the effect of HLAS-SD's entrance in the Slovakian political landscape (or of any other scenario). In fact, comparison is the reason why these scenarios are added. Which is why they should be put next to one another. On the other hand, color makes it easy to separate these polls from the rest.

Kahlores (talk) 01:18, 9 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]