Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:39:40 +0100
From: Tony Sidaway tonysida...@gmail.com
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Voting and !voting, what's the difference?
Shortly after I thought we'd finally killed off the habit of excessive
polling, an apologetic, humorous and evidently quite common meme
appeared
From: Tony Sidaway tonysida...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Voting and !voting, what's the difference?
On 8/28/09, Al Tally majorly.w...@googlemail.com wrote:
Polling and voting is a good way to see what people think without having to
wade through a mass of comments
Shortly after I thought we'd finally killed off the habit of excessive
polling, an apologetic, humorous and evidently quite common meme
appeared on Wikipedia: the !vote.
Unlike the vote, the !vote seems to afford the author the latitude
to falsely claim that he is opposed to polls and is not in
I'm seeing ban discussions on [[WP:AN]] being turned into polls, and
attempts to undo this are resisted by people who apparently believe
they're following Wikipedia policy.
I tend to avoid [[WP:AN]]--I don't need moar dramah--but if this is
true, then it shouldn't be happening.
Emily
On
2009/8/28 Tony Sidaway tonysida...@gmail.com:
It's 2009. Why is this happening?
Because voting is the only practical way of a large number of people
making a decision. The policies date back to when we were a small
project and could actually discuss things and reach a consensus, that
just isn't
Tony Sidawaytonysida...@gmail.com wrote:
Shortly after I thought we'd finally killed off the habit of excessive
polling, an apologetic, humorous and evidently quite common meme
appeared on Wikipedia: the !vote.
Unlike the vote, the !vote seems to afford the author the latitude
to falsely
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:39 AM, Tony Sidaway tonysida...@gmail.com wrote:
Shortly after I thought we'd finally killed off the habit of excessive
polling, an apologetic, humorous and evidently quite common meme
appeared on Wikipedia: the !vote.
Unlike the vote, the !vote seems to afford the
On 8/28/09, Al Tally majorly.w...@googlemail.com wrote:
Polling and voting is a good way to see what people think without having to
wade through a mass of comments.
If you can't be bothered to engage in discussion, I agree that voting
or !voting is the way to go.
You can't build consensus by
2009/8/28 Emily Monroe bluecalioc...@me.com:
Sure, but that's not what the phrase is actually used to mean.
What does it mean then?
In the context of RFA? It means a vote with a required supermajority
of 75% with some obviously invalid votes discounted and on very rare
occasions (getting rarer
