Help:Voting

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Voting cheat sheet

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Most of the time, editing a wiki is just a matter of applying the BOLD, revert, discuss cycle, but sometimes matters need a vote to be resolved, or maybe you're just not sure if applying a major change is right and want to test the waters first. This page describes how to set up a vote in accordance with the BRWiki voting policy.

This is brief description of how to start votes in BRWiki. For the actual policy govering votes, please see Policy/Voting. The most important bits are however described in the voting templates themselves.

[hide][top]How to start a vote

[hide][top]Creating the voting booth

Edit the discussion page of the article:
== Oneliner intro text ==

{{Proposal}}
I would like to .....

{{
subst
:Vote/Talk}}
This will create a voting booth like below, and automatically add the talk page to Votes_in_progress.

Oneliner intro text

''Use this template in talk pages to draw people's attention to your proposal. Do not use it in article pages; use {{Vote/Note|}} there.

This is a proposal and requires a vote to be accepted or declined.
Please vote below after you have reviewed the proposal.

I would like to .....

It was deemed that this proposal requires a vote. Please vote below! If one side outnumbers the other by five votes for three days, that side is declared the winner. Please do not mark this for accepted/declined or remove this message until the voting has met Voting policy requirements.

How to place your vote:

Simply click [Edit] in the upper-right hand corner of the Votes section, and type exactly one of the following below the other present votes:

{{vote|Yes|~~~~|your notes or leave empty}}, or

:{{vote|No|~~~~|your notes or leave empty}}

Then click Save page and you are done!

Note that some votes will have other options than Yes/No.
You may also want to check up on what is linking to the article!

When one side is winning:

If you are adding the winning vote, or notice that one side is in fact winning:
: Change {{Vote/Vote}} on this talk page to {{Vote/Closing}}

If Yes has won, and 3 days has passed:
1. Change {{Vote/Closing}} on this talk page to {{Accepted}}
2. Make the change suggested in the proposal.

If No has won, and 3 days has passed:
1. Change {{Vote/Closing}} on this talk page to {{Declined}}
2. Do not remove the votes!

If necessary, you may archive votes to Help:Voting/Archivevote.

Votes

;Yes:
;No:
Comments

Using {{Proposal}} is entirely optional. It has no effect other than drawing people's attention to your proposal.

[hide][top]Drawing attention to your vote

First of all, the {{Vote/Vote}} template will automatically place your vote in Votes in progress. However, if you want people visiting the article to immediately take note of the ongoing vote, you can put {{Vote/Note|}} in the article itself:
{{Vote/Note|
* Should we......(short text)?
}}

This will result in the following:

There are one or more proposals to change this article on the discussion page. Please help us make BRWiki better by giving us your input!

Should we......(short text)?

If you do not want to explain the vote in the article, you can of course just use {{Vote/Note|}}.
To draw even more attention to your vote, you can show it in the community portal by adding it to Community Portal/Democracy.