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Voting Procedure

I was thinking about making an official voting procedure limiting people who can vote. I don't think I liked how the CAS Sims vote was ran. Here are my proposals:

• To have Voting Requirements:

1. Must be a Member (Anonymous or IP Votes will not be counted)
2. Must have atleast 1 edit in the sims wiki
3. Votes must be signed correctly with ~~~~
4. Banned user's votes will not be counted.

• To have a voting format to make achived voting topics more comprehensible. Something like

==Voting Topic==

Small Description

===Agree===

# Vote

*Comment

**Another Comment

===Neutral===

===Disagree===

==Comments==

These ideas were mainly based on StarWars Fanon's archived vote, as well as their voting restrictions.

I know this is a small community also so I think I would like to limit voting time periods but do not know what that time period should be. Comments? Makiah 23:11, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Alright, my idea is that the time limit for voting will be 2 weeks, however if anyone would like to put in their input that would be great. On March 12th if no one has any input I think we will adopt the above as our voting format and voting rules. That way we will be able to use that to vote on the Policy and Main Page. Makiah 01:20, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

Looks very decent to me. I was wondering if we could have each vote have its own page, linked from a main "Current and Archived Votes" page; that way we can watch the current votes page for changes while not cluttering it up with old votes. Just a thought. --Narc (talk) 18:53, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

I was thinkings about that but I still have to look into how to do it. Like archived talk pages. I figure this would be the best place to hold the discussions then we could move it to another page and lock it indefinately as archived in an archived category that way it's viewable and people could read it but not change it. Then on the Article part of this page list the past discussions and their result with links to the archive. If it's the way I think it would be then a sample discussion/vote archive for example would be like Discussions/Main Page then in the article part would have a copy of the discussions then under that the votes. The article part would be locked and the Discussion part would be for any comments on those discussions. This page would be a central locations for all discussions and voting. Sound good? ~ Makiah 19:14, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

That sounds like what I was thinking about, honestly. --Narc (talk) 18:19, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Alright guys, you can check out the policy here: Sims wiki:Policy. I'm still willing to discuss the idea above. But whats in the policy is what we agree upon so that's why I kept it off for now. Makiah 21:06, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

I added the 2 week time period because no one contested the view and I didn't remember at the time when I was writing it that it was there. I haven't added the idea above about voting on other pages because while I agree with the idea I'm not sure how to do it or if what I mentioned above would be the best way to do it. If the way above is the correct way and no one opposes I'll write that into the Voting Procedures, that way it's set in stone and people have a format to follow. I think this should be priority over the other things mentioned on this page because we can use this to vote on the other things. ~ Makiah 00:12, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

I can't think of anything to add. I think it's probably more important right now to have a voting policy in place than to tweak its specifics -- we can always do that later. --Narc (talk) 18:19, 13 March 2008 (UTC)