[WikiEN-l] deletion policy amendment poll -- admin help requested

Thu Sep 30 22:01:27 UTC 2004

This poll on an amendment to the deletion policy:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk: 
>> Deletion_policy#Proposed_new_rule:_No_repeat_submission_of_articles
has become a bit of a mess, due to my slightly unfortunate choice of  
words when I opened the poll.

I have now added a statement acknowledging the problems but I have  
requested that the poll results be respected despite the (arguably not  
major) insufficiencies.

However I feel that any further steps towards codifying the proposed  
rule might be frowned upon if I take them.
I would like to ask our admins to help
I would like to request that an admin (preferably a few admins) look at  
the situation and see if it can be sorted out without a repeat poll.

I don't think a repeat poll is a good idea because with every poll  
there will be deviating preferences and minor criticisms.
I feel that if that were enough to invalidate a poll then every poll  
would have to be invalidated and we could never make any decision.
We'd end up holding polls on whether we can accept a poll on whether we  
can accept a poll.

Again, I'd like to ask for some "old hands" (admins) to please look at  
things and provide some guidance and leadership as regards  this issue.

-- ropers [[en:User:Ropers]]
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