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This page describes a policy that was utilized briefly before being rejected.
This page describes the policies and rules for using the Wikipedia:Quickpolls page.
Quickpolls can be used for four types of cases:
They need to be started within 24 hours of the alleged incident.
Before you take a quickpoll, give the user a fair chance to improve their behavior. If a user might not be aware of a policy, make them aware of it first. But there is no need to warn repeat violators of the same policy again and again.
Users should not start quickpolls solely in retaliation for earlier quickpolls. This may be regarded as an abuse of process.
There are three possible remedies - the proposer should pick the most appropriate remedy for the dispute and user in question.
A quickpoll decision is reversed in these situations:
A quickpoll should be announced on the following places:
Encouraged, but not required:
The format for an announcement on the user's talk page may look like this:
The format for a recent changes announcement is as follows:
For multiple polls:
The notice on recent changes should be removed shortly after 15 votes have been received.
A quickpoll should be created on wikipedia:quickpolls.
A quickpoll should take the following format:
To start a quickpoll or to vote in one, a user must meet the following conditions:
Any user may add comments. It is encouraged to put prolonged discussions in the comments section rather than in the poll itself.
Do not delete any votes in a quickpoll because of a violation of the above. Instead, move the votes to the comments section. If there is a reasonable dispute as to whether or not a vote should be counted (unclear whether the rules apply), leave it in the comments section and add a note with your reasoning directly below the disputed vote. In any case, do not get into an edit war over quickpolls.
There is no voting deadline for quickpolls.
Quickpoll votes need to approach consensus. In practice, any quickpoll that shows at least 80% agreement and a minimum number of 8 votes in favour can be implemented. (If the remedy is a 24 hour ban, make sure that another sysop hasn't beaten you to the block button.) If the vote subsequently drops below 70%, the remedy should be reversed.
Reversed remedies cannot be reinstated, even if the proportion subsequently rises again. If subsequent behaviour causes people to change their votes, you may instead wish to take a separate quickpoll on the subsequent behaviour.
All quickpolls can be removed from Wikipedia:Recentchanges after 15 votes have been reached.
If a 24-hour ban or desysopping is proposed but not approved, the quickpoll can be removed from this page under the following conditions:
10-19 votes | 20-29 votes | 30-39 votes | >= 40 votes |
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<= 40% approval |
<= 50% approval |
<= 60% approval |
<= 80% approval |
A quickpoll can be removed from this page 48 hours after the ban is implemented, or 48 hours after listing if no ban is implemented. In the case of a desysoping, the quickpoll should be kept open for voting until the user is resysoped or the arbitration committee has approved the desysoping, though it may be archived 48 hours after implementation.
Concluded polls should be moved to Wikipedia:Quickpolls/Archive.