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.
On 16 July 2014 12:25, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
English hasn't used voting for a long time either. AfD discussions are closed based on strength of argument and compliance with policy. On Jul 16, 2014 2:24 AM, "Tomasz Ganicz" polimerek@gmail.com wrote:
In Polish Wikipedia there is no voting for deletion for around 3-4 years. There is discussion and then final decission is made by one of admins who regularly maintains the deletion process.
2014-07-16 10:20 GMT+02:00 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com:
Thanks. All questions were generic and about "Wikipedia", so I answered with the Italian Wikipedia in mind. Also note that it.wiki is perhaps the only wiki which switched deletions from voting to non-voting: the experiment was already done, you only need to measure and interpret it. :-) See
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2013-January/123334.html
I had problems with two questions:
- "Are you concerned that somebody would change or remove your
rationale? Please choose the most applicable response." This question assumes that removing a comment is bad; I would have answered "Yes when appropriate per law or policy" but there was no such option.
- "Do you read the rationales in the discussion before making the final
decision?" This assumes that this is just a matter of personal taste; sometimes policy and process requires it, sometimes not. (For instance in the classic it.wiki deletion process, but certainly also in some specific sub-process triggers on en.wiki and others.)
Nemo
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