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. 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 changes Template:PolicyVotingRules from this:
| Voting Rules |
Votes must be numbered, signed, and timestamped. They can take one of two forms:
Votes that do not conform to the above will be struck by a sysop. |
| The only valid voting sections are For and Against. If you wish to abstain from voting, do not vote. |
to this:
| Voting Rules |
Votes must be numbered, signed, and timestamped. They can take one of two forms:
|
| The stance of the voter must be easily understood by the Wiki community.
Votes that do not conform to the above will be struck by a sysop. |
| The only valid voting sections are For and Against. If you wish to abstain from voting, do not vote. |
(changes underlined.)
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)
