[WikiEN-l] A few common sense suggestions for election day

Mon Sep 20 07:52:15 UTC 2004

Mark, good to see some planning on this early on. I think these are
very good guidelines. It would also be nice to set up some boilerplate
configurations with sections and such, so we can avoid edit conflicts
as much as possible too.

-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 02:47:41 -0400, Mark Pellegrini
<mapellegrini at comcast.net> wrote:
> I was trying to imagine what [[template:In the News]] is going to
> look like come election night, and my mental projections are not good.
> I'd like to suggest a few common sense things that we should agree upon
> *now* while we still have plenty of time to agrue about it:
> 
> 1) Template:In the News should have a single link to [[2000 election in
> progress]]
> or a page to that effect. Rather than having people in a deathmatch to edit
> the main page template, they can fight there instead.
> 
> 2) Absolutely no one is allowed to call any states until 24 (or more) hours
> after the
> polls close.
> 
> 3) I also suspect there's going to be a lot of vandalism to the main page
> templates
> (especially in-the-news), so we might consider protecting it in advance (or
> at first
> sign of trouble) for the duraction of the election.
> 
> --Mark
> 
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