Talk:2008 Malaysian general election

60 days

Many sources prove the election must be held within 60 days. [1][2] --Aleenf1 11:43, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

A better source would be the constitution itself. I believe it is mentioned under Article 55. __earth ^(Talk) 12:24, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Kelantan

I presume all the BN controlled states except Sarawak are going to have their elections too? [3] But does anyone know if PAS plan to dissolve the Kelantan state assembly? Nil Einne (talk) 15:35, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Yes. I saw it over TV. __earth ^(Talk) 16:00, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

An article on dissolution of Kelatan state assembly: [4] __earth ^(Talk) 05:20, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

State elections

Should we make separate articles for the state elections? Maybe we could do something like: Peninsular Malaysia state elections, 2008, and Sabah state election, 2008. Its separated coz, Peninsular states always have their elections simultaneously, while in Sabah and Sarawak, their elections are sometimes held at different times. See also: {{Malaysian state elections}} kawaputra^torque 01:31, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Not practical, considering we'll inevitably have to manage three/four articles (one on the GE, one on the peninsular and one or two on East Malaysia). The GE is basically the election in the peninsular, and the East Malaysian elections, intended to take place in separate timelines, is outside the timetable of the actual GE. Having two/three (one on the GE, one on the peninsular, and one or two on East Malaysia) from the current setup is more than enough. We'll be expecting more intensive edits in the coming weeks, and some centralisation helps to maintain consistency, reduce repetition and provide more visible space to contribute stuff. - Two hundred percent (talk) 10:41, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps. But i've started the Sabah state election, 2008 page anyway. I was thinking that we could leave this page for the parliamentary elections, and create a separate page for the state assembly elections, like suggested above. I may be willing to do that. Or else, we'll just put everything here. See how it goes. kawaputra^torque 12:01, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, the current parliamentary-East M'sia split is fine as it is. - Two hundred percent (talk) 10:26, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Opposition in media

I changed the statement here [5] as the reference does not say the opposition are barely mentioned in a positive light. It quotes one random person who says most references are negative but that is the view of one random person. However the reference does say that the opposition is barely mentioned in the government controlled media which is what I have changed it to say Nil Einne (talk) 09:02, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Image:Bn manifesto2008.pdf

Could the uploader (will noticy directly later) or some willing person verify the copyright status of the document? I know it's meant to be freely distributed, but Wikipedia won't go easy on an upload that doesn't even have a copyright status tag at all. - Two hundred percent (talk) 10:19, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Site

Any reason why the official site should be remove? --Aleenf1 08:54, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

How do you know the pru12.com is an official site? __earth ^(Talk) 10:01, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

RTM ads --Aleenf1 10:07, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

The site itself doesn't say it's official. If it were official, I imagine it would have a .gov.my address. Johnleemk | Talk 19:29, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm not agree with Johnleemk, url not usually suppose to be .gov.my, anyway, no objection if the site deleted. --Aleenf1 04:20, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

In the past several days, there have been editions that included various sites like pru12.com, http://www.mypolitician.com.my, etc at various pages that do not direct relate to the election like at Politics of Malaysia or Ong Ka Ting. I've come to consider these links as spam. There are a lot of sites that share the same function as pru12.com and therefore, we have to be careful calling specific links as "official sites". __earth ^(Talk) 06:04, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

I've added in http://pru12.spr.gov.my/spr/ - it is linked from SPR's site, so I assume that it's official. Don't know the connection with pru12.com though.– Matthew A. Lockhart ^(talk) 09:18, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

That should be fine. __earth ^(Talk) 13:04, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Tone

The tone of this article is very unencyclopaedic. This is not a place for election commentary. Intelligent Mr Toad (talk) 14:22, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Popular Vote and Other Statistics

With counting now just about fully complete, there would seem to be very little chances of any changes in the popular vote statistics.

Sinchew has tabulated them here: http://www.sinchew-i.com/special/election2008/result.phtml

It's in Chinese, and I will try to the best of my abilities to match the Chinese names to the party names.Whodhellknew (talk) 23:41, 9 March 2008 (UTC)