On Dec 4, 2007 10:09 AM, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
I'd say a better thing would be to not hold such a huge number of polls that it canvassing for people to find out about them. Alternatively, if you insist on having polls for everything, maybe a random jury selection type system would bring more independent opinions into place.
I agree. I think Wikipedia:Canvassing is mostly supported because people like having their own little private "consensus" off in some corner of Wikipedia.
Even then, it's never prohibited Wikipedia users talking about Wikipedia events in other forums, public or private. It mentions email, but as far as I can see it's more oriented towards abuse of 'Email this user'.
-Matt