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Most of the time, editing a wiki is just a matter of applying the BOLD, revert, discuss cycle, but sometimes matters need a vote to be resolved, or maybe you're just not sure if applying a major change is right and want to test the waters first. This page describes how to set up a vote in accordance with the WoWWiki voting policy.

This is brief description of how to start votes in WoWWiki. For the actual policy govering votes, please see WoWWiki:Policy/Voting. The most important bits are however described in the voting templates themselves.

How to start a vote

Creating the voting booth

Edit the discussion page of the article:

== Oneliner intro text ==

{{Proposal}}
I would like to .....

{{subst:Vote/Talk}}

This will create a voting booth like below, and automatically add the talk page to Category:Votes_in_progress.

Oneliner intro text This is a proposal and requires a vote to be accepted or declined. Please vote below after you have reviewed the proposal. I would like to ..... A vote is in progress! A consensus must be reached by voting before any action is taken. If one side outnumbers the other by five votes for three days, that side is declared the winner. To vote Click [Edit] in the upper-right hand corner of the votes section, and add your vote in one the following methods (note that not all votes will have Yes/No options): {{vote|Yes|~~~~|optional comment}} or {{vote|No|~~~~|optional comment}} Then click Save page and you are done! Replace |~~~~| with |sig=~~~~|| if you have a complicated signature! To discuss the vote Click [Edit] in the upper-right hand corner of the comments section. The voting process See WoWWiki:Policy/Voting for full details. Make the following changes based on the outcome: If you are adding the winning vote, or notice that one side is in fact winning: Change {{Vote/Vote}} on this talk page to {{Vote/Closing}} If Yes has won, and 3 days have passed Change {{Vote/Closing}} on this talk page to {{Accepted}} Make the change suggested in the proposal. If No has won, and 3 days have passed Change {{Vote/Closing}} on this talk page to {{Declined}} Do not remove the votes! If necessary, you may archive votes to Help:Voting/Archivevote. Votes Yes No Comments

Using {{Proposal}} is entirely optional. It has no effect other than drawing people's attention to your proposal.

Drawing attention to your vote

First of all, the {{Vote/Vote}} template will automatically place your vote in Category: Votes in progress. However, if you want people visiting the article to immediately take note of the ongoing vote, you can put {{Vote/Note|<oneliner intro>}} in the article itself:

{{Vote/Note|
* Should we......(short text)?
}}

This will result in the following:

There are one or more proposals to change this article on the discussion page. Please help us make WoWWiki better by giving us your input! Should we......(short text)?

If you do not want to explain the vote in the article, you can of course just use {{Vote/Note|<leave blank>}}.

To draw even more attention to your vote, you can show it in the community portal by adding it to WoWWiki:Community portal.