NSWiki:Polls
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.
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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 (2/0/0/0/0)
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. Ceoranta 19:30, 11 November 2006 (GMT)
Implement and use on all nation pages
- Ceoranta 19:30, 11 November 2006 (GMT)
- Mikitivity 20:15, 11 November 2006 (GMT)
Implement, switch out current infobox but allow pages to use custom infoboxes
Implement but put on new template page
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.. Ceoranta 20:24, 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)
