UDWiki:Open Discussion/Voting Guidelines

At the moment, there's a policy being discussed here about making English the sole official language of the wiki administration. More specifically, it has been created as a result of some votes on A/D/S being made in languages that can't be understood by the majority of the Wiki (from memory, Japanese, Indonesian, Dutch, Italian and German.)

It's clear that a strict "English Only" rule is not wanted by the majority of the wiki community. However, it does seem that most people do agree that the bolded part of the vote should be easily understood by the Wiki community (or more correctly, whoever counts the votes.) Basically, I'm proposing a guideline change, which adds the following clause to voting guidelines on administration pages (A/D, A/D/S, A/PD,) to include the following:

The stance of a voter must be easily understood by the Wiki community. Ambiguous votes will be struck.

(Commentary is not covered, only the bolded part.)

I would much prefer this to be a guideline change, as opposed to a new policy. If the community seems to want this as a policy, as opposed to a guideline change, I'll ask for this page to be moved to A/PD. Of course, the wording is up for discussion.

Thoughts? Linkthewindow  Talk  09:08, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

I like it, and the idea sounds good. I think the word "stance" is ambiguous though, and the phrasing might be better if it read as, "The bolded part of the vote..." for that first part. Alternatively, we could just say something along the lines of, "The only acceptable votes are Yea, Nay, or easily understood variations thereof. All others will be struck." —Aichon— 09:50, 29 December 2009 (UTC)