Talk:Majority
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Doesn't seem like a disambiguation page to me... Wouter Lievens 20:53, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Me either; I'll remove the tag. Melchoir 21:46, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Beyond the scope?
There's a note about discussions of majority as applied to parliamentary procedure being beyond the scope of the article, a little ways down from where it's discussed (and where it was discussed before I expanded the discussion). Which is it? Jay Maynard 22:33, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
There is a recent creep in American usage to majority being "the bulk", in speaking for instance of "a majority of the water"; but this is not in Webster, where it is implicit that "majority" is a countable and therefore integer number. Clearly the "majority of water" is a pomposity for "most of the water", and should be discouraged on grounds of style as well as erring.
[edit] Different Definitions
I added the definitions of majority from RONR and TSC.
For the record Wimpy the Gerbil came in second in the Undergraduate Student Government elections at the Pennsylvania State University in 1981-82. He beat the human candidate endorse by the Collegian student newspaper.
If someone can fix my citations, go ahead.
--J. J. in PA 07:08, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
- As it happens, you almost got the references right. Wikipedia markup can do it automagically. All you have to do, after putting in <ref> and </ref> tags in the entry, is add a section with a single <references/> tag, and presto! -- Jay Maynard 09:31, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
