Category:Votes

Welcome to part of the community review process within Guild Wiki. This page has been created to provide an index of pages currently being voted on by the community.

As part of the community, you are invited to review the issues below and to vote on the topics shown below. This allows for the community to choose which of multiple ideas for design changes or page changes will be selected; or even to determine if any change should be made at all on the item having a vote requested.

Please copy old votes to the page Old_votes before removing the category.

Voting Tips

 * To place an article in this category, place the text   at the bottom of the article's Talk page. Do not place this tag in the article itself.
 * To vote on any issue, go to the relevant talk page and voice your vote. Often there will be different ideas suggested and users can just add their name or sign (using ~ ) next to the idea they like most.
 * It is better if you create an account so that your votes are under your name rather than an IP address which maybe confused with others'.
 * When starting a vote, set an amount of time that the vote will be open and what type of vote it will be. Also, check the archives to see if there has been another vote on a related issue, and make a list of people who have voted on related issues in the past.  Chances are they would be interested this time, but they might not have noticed there is a vote going on.

Voting Types

 * Plurality Vote - the option that gets the most votes win. If there is a tie at the top, a run-off is done between the two.
 * Majority Vote - the option that gest at more than 50% of the votes win. If none reach majority, options below a certain threshold are eliminated and a run-off is done between the rest.
 * 2/3 Vote - Usually reserved for really important issues, or to overturn a previously decided issue. Requires 2/3 of the votes to win.
 * Approval Vote - Each voter votes for each "candidate" or not (instead of being able to vote for only one candidate). The candidate with the most votes wins.  (And therefore, is presumably the candidate that the most voters approve of.)
 * Instant-Runoff Votes - At voting time, voters list the candidates by preference, first to last. Only first choice votes are counted.  If no option reach the needed number of votes (usually a majority), the option with the least number of votes is eliminated.  People who voted for the eliminated option have their second choice become their first choice.  The process repeats until there is an option with the required number of votes (usually a majority).