Help:Voting

 Voting cheat sheet

''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 Project voting policy.''


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

Creating the voting booth
Edit the page of the article:

== Oneliner intro text == I would like to ..... Vote/Talk

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

Oneliner intro text

I would like to .....

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 oneliner intro in the article itself:

This will result in the following:

If you do not want to explain the vote in the article, you can of course just use.

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