This speaks to spelling out clearly before the poll starts how these kinds of situations will be resolved. I don't think that you can assume at this stage that someone who voted for one of the yes options would approve of a different one, or a change. Mark
--- Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
John Lee wrote:
I'm at my wits' end over how to handle
[[Wikipedia:Preliminary
Deletion]]. Half the oppose votes oppose the
policy for no reason
other than that they prefer a different course of
action - how am I to
address that when it's clear that a majority of
the community prefers
this proposal to the alternative this substantial
opposition proposes
(namely, the expansion of speedy deletion
criteria)? Others called it
instruction creep, which I've tried to address,
though how this
proposal can be viewed as complex is beyond me, A
minority suggested
housing it on the same page as VFD (when a central
reason behind this
is that VFD is overcrowded).
Well, by my count, 73.5% of the votes were for one of the "Yes" options (114/155), and 26.5% for "No" (41/155). Is that consensus? I suppose that depends on your definition, but a ~3:1 preference is fairly convincing.
-Mark
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