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In order to get more input from the Misplaced Pages 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.
You may also wish to see Misplaced Pages:Requested moves which is a list of active page move discussions.
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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 from the list when it appears the question is no longer being actively considered. Survey lists are not archived here; to find older surveys and polls, consult this page's 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.
For ideas on designing a survey, see Misplaced Pages:Survey guidelines. 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. For information on elections related to Misplaced Pages, see Misplaced Pages:Elections.
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. No signatures, please.
Policies and requirements
- Misplaced Pages:Votes for deletion/Policy consensus - contains a number of discussions meant to establish consensus over the suitability (or lack thereof) for certain groups of articles in Misplaced Pages.
- Misplaced Pages:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion/Proposal is a proposal to amend WP:CSD to reduce the number of articles that get discussion time on Votes for deletion, Images for deletion and other discussion forums.
Software and features
Conventions and formatting
- Misplaced Pages:Language order poll - desired language order of multilingual lists
- Misplaced Pages:Eras/Compromise proposal - when is it appropriate to use BCE/CE or BC/AD?
Article content and structure, and WikiProjects
- Anti-Defamation_League/Talk:Anti-Defamation_League - Whether or not the ADL is a biased source, and whether or not to use the ADL as a source in other articles.
- Apartheid/Talk:Apartheid - Whether or not to make special mention of "diaspora Jews" in a one-sentence summary of the history of European colonization of South Africa and the genesis of apartheid.
- Palm Aire, Florida/Talk:Palm Aire, Florida - Census designation misnomer, not actual Palm Aire, should the article be deleted, rewritten, moved? See talk page. 29 June 2005 01:36 (UTC)
- feces/talk:feces - after one vote on whether to include a photo of a large human stool that showed a small majority in favor of including the photo, there is a new survey over the size and location of the photo within the article. 28 June 2005 08:53 (UTC)
- Misplaced Pages:Adding_a_GFDL_license_to_your_webpage After little feedback on the Village Pump, I have decided advertise this Wiki page on the internet in the near future. Please make comments on the discussion page immediately if you do not approve (or on my talk page).
- Talk:List of famous gay, lesbian or bisexual people - vote on proposed changes to policy for inclusion in list
- Template talk:Europe#Poll: Which items should be listed? - several polls regarding whether Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenia, and Akrotiri and Dhekelia should be listed on Template:Europe. Keep scrolling way down to see all items to be voted for. No end date (polls will be closed when consensus is reached).
- Talk:Germany#Straw_poll - Long section on German history, vs. a shorter one. Attempt to help settle a long-running revert war, wider input would be appreciated.
- Talk:Democratic_peace_theory#Which_Structure.3F_a_discussion. Ongoing edit war on the overall structure of the page. Two different, and incompatible, approaches to the discussion of criticisms and defenses of a theory. The article may need other work, but that can't be done until this is resolved.'
Article title/move surveys
- Talk:Mecca — currently the article uses both "Mecca" and "Makkah"; vote on which standard to use. 5 July 2005 13:29 (UTC)
- Misplaced Pages talk:Naming conventions (use English)#Proposal and straw poll regarding place names with diacritical marks - An attempt to go from the Zürich to Zurich debate to a more comprehensive policy on diacriticals in place names.
- Misplaced Pages talk:Naming conventions (Chinese)/NPOV/Taiwan vs. ROC & Misplaced Pages talk:Naming conventions (Chinese)/NPOV - A vote on the application of Misplaced Pages:Naming conventions (Chinese)#Political NPOV
- Also check Misplaced Pages:Requested moves
Ongoing surveys
Deletions
- Votes for deletion - Article deletion
- Votes for undelete - Article undeletion
- Templates for deletion
- Categories for deletion
- Stub types for deletion
- Images for deletion
- Redirects for deletion
Article Improvement
- Article improvement drive
- Featured article candidates
- Misplaced Pages:Featured picture candidates
- Collaboration of the week
Comments but no voting
- Peer review - review of articles, usually before submitting them as Featured article candidates
Other ongoing surveys
- Requested moves - moving articles to a new title
- Votes for adminship
- Requests for Comments - comments on article disputes, the behavior of editors, the behavior of administrators, and editor's user names