UDWiki:Administration/Policy Discussion/Scheduled protections and deletions changes

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As it is now, scheduled protections and deletions are voted on on the A/PT and A/D page respectively and not publicised at all, and thus receive very little feedback. It's important to point out that no scheduled deletion or protection has so far received more than 5 votes, even when they have the strength of a policy, can be voted by everyone and are included on the Guidelines after approval. In this state, they are currently very prone to abuse.

This policy proposes that all scheduled protections and deletions are to be voted from now on as any other Policy discussion. Being a matter of general interest for all wiki users, it's the right thing to do, and more so so they will receive all the exposure an announcement on the Main page's Template:Wiki News can give.

Voting section

Voting Rules
Votes must be numbered, signed, and timestamped. They can take one of two forms:
  • # comments ~~~~
    or
  • # ~~~~

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.

For

  1. The policy basically adresses a loophole, so why not? --Matthew Fahrenheit YRC☺T☺+1 05:43, 3 September 2007 (BST)
  2. --~~~~ [Talk] 07:42, 3 September 2007 (BST)

Against

  1. Nay - This isn't clear, will they have to be passed through policy discussion or will it be forced that they get the same level of exposure? I don't think that it should be put through policy discussion. Theres also nothing stopping you from adding it to community announcements or the wiki news template. Anyway I don't see how this could be abused. Sysops wouldn't protect or delete anything just because it's in a protection/deletion schedule. If anything looks suspicious then they will investigate before acting (or at least they should). - If Jedaz = 07:56, 3 September 2007 (BST) then pi = 2 + 1
  2. Against This type of policy is limited to maintenance tasks already and moving it to policy discussion would added two more layers of red tape to wiki jantoiring. They are place where they are so that the people who regularly use those pages can have their say- Vantar 09:01, 3 September 2007 (BST)
  3. Against - Vantar says it well. Putting them up for policy vote makes it the communities choice if any page gets protected or deleted regardless of who actually uses the page.--Karekmaps?! 12:57, 3 September 2007 (BST)
  4. No - For small wikis like this, it doesn't make sense to insist on large numbers in votes. --Pgunn 18:03, 3 September 2007 (BST)
  5. Against - It's as easy as clicking on a link. There is no need for the red tape --Ryiis 20:32, 3 September 2007 (BST)
  6. Read those above votes. --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ #nerftemplatedsigs 21:18, 3 September 2007 (BST)
  7. Nie - As Vantar -- Pavluk 23:41, 3 September 2007 (BST)
  8. As above.--ShadowScope 05:39, 4 September 2007 (BST)
  9. What everyone else said. --ZombieSlay3rSig.pngT 17:02, 6 September 2007 (BST)
  10. ---Jorm 17:18, 6 September 2007 (BST)
  11. If people were trying to abuse the system, I may agree, but all scheduled protections/deletions so far have been needed. It's not hard to kick up a fuss if you see something controversial trying to be forced through The preceding signed comment was added by boxy (talk • contribs) at 09:42 9 September 2007 (BST)
  12. --Max Grivas JG / M.F.T. 02:21, 11 September 2007 (BST)
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