Shortcut: BF:VOTE

This policy establishes the rules for participating in votes on this site, and how votes should be run.

Votes are common, especially for choosing featured content and electing admins. But they are also used on the forums to vote on proposals for the site.

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Contents 1 Voter Requirements 2 Vote Management 3 Tiebreakers 3.1 Proposal Style 3.2 Featured Style

Voter Requirements

To vote you must meet the following criteria (unless stated otherwise at the place of the vote):

• At least 20 mainspace edits

• Have been active for over 1 month

These are to prevent multiple account abuse. Any suspect accounts will be IP verified. Any ineligible votes should be struck-out and ignored.

Vote Management

Votes typically stem from a proposal. For example:

It is proposed we develop a policy on voting

Users would then either support, oppose or comment on the proposal. To do this, the following format should be used:

*'''Support''' - Reason - ~~~~

*'''Oppose''' - Reason - ~~~~

*Comment - ~~~~

Bolding is important to differentiate a comment expressing an opinion and a formal vote.

Vote results should be displayed using Template:Vote, in the following format:

{{Vote
|Support votes
|Oppose votes
}}

All votes last for 1 week unless stated otherwise at the place of the vote.

Upon completion, all votes and related discussions should be archived in situ or somewhere appropriate for record keeping purposes (BF:DDD). These should then not be altered.

Tiebreakers

Shortcut: BF:TIE

If a vote ends with a draw, the tiebreak procedure, agreed here, must be employed. Note that this is intentionally longer than should ever be required and should always lead to a conclusive result.

Proposal Style

If the vote is, for example, a proposal, where a user must vote for, against or other, then tiebreaking is simple:

• Whichever of support or oppose has the higher count wins
• If this is a draw, all votes except those of admins are ignored and a recount takes place.
• Should this still be a draw, the casting vote resides with the current user of the month

Featured Style

If there are multiple proposals, for example, for featured content, where users can support or oppose multiple proposals, but only one proposal can go ahead, then tiebreaking is similar. If one proposal is tied, the above must be followed before an overall tie may be determined.

• If there are multiple approved proposals, whichever has he highest net result (support-oppose) wins
• If this is still a draw, all votes except those of admins are ignored and the net result recalculated.
• Should this still be a draw, the casting vote resides with the previous month's user of the month