On 16 July 2014 12:34, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I would suggest that it doesn't become not a vote merely by not calling it a vote. I note all the closes that count "!votes" and how the not-voting pattern on a given AFD is frequently brought up at DRV.
Vote-counting is increasingly prevalent in template deletion discussions (TfDs) on en.WP, too.
I raised my concerns there, in May:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Templates_for_discussion#Closur...