Difference between revisions of "NSWiki:Polls"

Revision as of 18:43, 11 November 2006

In order to get more input from the NSwiki community on important questions, it is sometimes useful to conduct a survey of community opinion. This page lists surveys or polls that are currently being held on various talk pages.

Instructions for listing surveys

Please add new opinion surveys to the list under the appropriate heading. Add a short description of what the survey is about. Note the starting date of the survey and the date the survey will end, if applicable.

After a survey period ends, it may be removed from the list (however, it should remain for at least a short time after the survey ends, to allow anyone interested to view the results). If no closing date is indicated, the survey may be removed when it appears the question is no longer being actively considered. These are not archived; to find older surveys and polls, consult the page history.

Purpose of surveys

Surveys may be used as part of dispute resolution, or to solicit opinions before making significant changes. They can be useful in developing consensus when community opinion is not immediately obvious in normal discussion. For example, a survey may bring in opinions from people who agree with one position, but don't join the discussion because they don't feel they have anything original to add.

The results of a survey are not binding, and may be subject to interpretation. A survey may sometimes be called a poll, and it may involve voting for different options, but it is not the same thing as an election.

Opinion surveys should be used to determine whether a consensus exists, not to decide which side "wins". Successful surveys and polls generate consensus, because some people who disagree will nevertheless recognize and accept the consensus opinion of the community.

Current surveys

Most recent at top of each section

Policies and requirements

no current polls

Software and feature

no current polls

Conventions and formatting

Infobox Nation change (2/1/1/0/0)

To change Template:Infobox Nation to the new version presented at User:Ceorana/Sandbox. The new version ought to work with old pages, but it also contains lots of other fields so we can universally apply it to all nation pages. See NSwiki talk:Info boxes. Ceoran_ta 19:30, 11 November 2006 (GMT)

Implement and use on all nation pages

1. Ceoran_ta 19:30, 11 November 2006 (GMT)
2. Mikitivity 20:15, 11 November 2006 (GMT)

Implement, switch out current infobox but allow pages to use custom infoboxes

1. BramP 22:27, 11 November 2006 (GMT)

Implement but put on new template page

1. --swilatia 21:23, 11 November 2006 (GMT)

Oppose

Neutral

Comments/Questions

What are sovereignty notes and the solstat? Also, many nations have multiple timezones, thus I'd suggest a link to "timezone" point out that this is the capital's timezone. Mikitivity 20:15, 11 November 2006 (GMT)

Sovereignty note is a note about the sovereignty - for example, an article about RL US would have sovereignty_type = Independence and sovereignty_note = From Great Britain. Established_dates are the dates that different events happened. Solstat stands for Standard Of Living STATistic, like an HDI or something. Most of the fields are used on Ceorana, so you can get a little more information from looking at that. I'll try to write some documentation for it as well.. Ceoran_ta 20:24, 11 November 2006 (GMT)

I don't think we should force one infobox on all nations, as some nations don't have the incentive to come up with all this stuff, and I am sure that certain nations don't observe DST (In fact, Swilatia does not observe it.), and sime nations use their flag as the emblem, so there are some problems. what I think should be done is Re-organise the Info Boxes page, to show that we have multiple nation infoboxes, instead of telling people to use one. besides, so many pages use infobox: nation, that it will take ages to change all the pages so that they are not filled with triple braces. so the best bet here would be to add this as a completely different template. --swilatia 21:34, 11 November 2006 (GMT)

I think that any new infobox has to be completely backward compatible, so that the same fields that are in the old infobox (flag, region, motto, map, language, capital, population, currency, leader) are required, and all the others optional, in which case the triple braces that show up were already there with the old template. Otherwise it would be better if it's added as a new template. :: BramP 22:27, 11 November 2006 (GMT)

This template will work absolutely fine with current nation pages; it is 100% backward compatible. You can put in just the params that are currently required and come out with a good-looking page, see User:Ceorana/Sandbox2, which is Mikitivity, exactly as it appears in its curernt article but linking to User:Ceorana/Sandbox. There are no triple braces! (This is because includeonly tags are included in the qif tags, in order to show what it would look like on the template page. Ceoran_ta 22:43, 11 November 2006 (GMT)

Article content and structure

• Talk:World government - Is the World government article NPOV? (Started 22:52, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC))
• Talk:Pure Evil - Should the Pure Evil article include the section on the World Dollar? (Started 00:05, 19 Oct 2004 (GMT))
• Talk:Christianity - NPOV business with User:Syskeyia -- |Knoot|KNOOtalk 16:10, 15 Dec 2004 (GMT)