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Revision as of 20:28, 8 April 2007 by Altenmann (talk | contribs) (Please keep in mind that these numbers are a rough approximation, since some editors placed their votes in wrong section (most notably the third one))(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff) | This was a straw poll to gauge the community's thoughts about the Misplaced Pages:Attribution merger. The poll ran from March 30, 2007 at 00:00 UTC to April 7, 2007 at 01:00 UTC. 424 respondents voted into the section for broad support of the merger, 354 voted in the section broad opposition, and 102 voted in the section for neutral vote and expressed a qualified opinion, suggested a compromise or expressed some other opinion. Please keep in mind that these numbers are a rough approximation, since some editors placed their votes in wrong section (most notably the third one) Please see below for their rationales and related comments. |
Background
Misplaced Pages:Attribution (WP:ATT) is an attempt to unite Misplaced Pages:Verifiability (WP:V) and Misplaced Pages:No original research (WP:NOR). It was worked on for over five months by more than 300 editors, and was upgraded to policy on 15 February, 2007. The proposal was e-mailed to Misplaced Pages co-founder Jimbo Wales, made public on various policy talk pages, on the WikiEN-L mailing list, and was announced on The Misplaced Pages Signpost.
More recently, on the WikiEN-L mailing list, Jimbo Wales suggested:
- "A broad community discussion to shed light on the very good work done by a group of people laboring away on WP:ATT and related pages", (see: Misplaced Pages talk:Attribution/Community discussion), and then,
- "a poll to assess the feelings of the community as best we can, and then we can have a final certification of the results."
References:
- Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales, "Just what *is* Jimbo's role anyway?" WikiEN-L, 06:56, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
How to participate in this poll
- Please familiarize yourself with the debate:
- Misplaced Pages talk:Attribution/Community discussion.
- Arguments in support of the merge, an essay in support.
- Arguments against the merge, an essay in opposition.
- Questions suggested during poll design; some criticized as biased towards ATT, some as biased against it.
- Please do not directly respond on this page to opinions of other editors; discussion should take place on the designated talk page. Comments in the polling sections of this page should be limited to short statements (300 words or less ideally). Responses in the 'polling' section will be refactored and moved to the Talk page.
- Notes
- This is a hybrid Requests for comment and straw poll, not a vote. As such, any numeric results may not be definitive. This is a means of gathering opinions on one page in an organized way.
- We are not polling on the name of Misplaced Pages:Attribution; when this poll is done and the page unfrozen, such requests will be welcome at Misplaced Pages:Requested Moves. We want to see what people think of the merger.