Animal Crossing Wiki:Proposals

OK. We've got the voting pages for creating, moving, deleting, promoting and the other one, so where's the one for policy-related matters? Answer = here.

This is where we vote on changes to policy, rules, page layout, etc.

How to vote
Basic voting rules apply here.


 * Support counts as +1 for the passing of the proposal.
 * Likewise, oppose counts as -1.
 * Neutral counts as +0.
 * Leave a comment.

+4 equals pass, -4 equals FORGET IT; if no judgment is reached after 2 weeks, proposal is moved to archive. You may try again after 4 weeks.

A proposal's total can be calculated by adding all of the votes together: eg 1 neutral, 2 oppose and 3 support equals +1, because 0 + 0 - 1 - 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 1.

Minimum mainspace edit requirement for promotion
07:56, August 6, 2010 (UTC) I have seen that a lot of users are requesting promotion recently, and some have very few mainspace edits. I think there should be a required number of these, because they can just post 500 blog comments and become an admin. Super  (duh... )Alpaca  07:56, August 6, 2010 (UTC)
 * I oppose because someone could simply put 'a' on a page and that would be classed as an edit. Even if a user has 2'000 edits, you can never prove they are a worthy editor and make sensible and helpful contributions. --Cornimer [[Image:Small Acorn.png]]My User Page [[Image:Small Green Acorn.png]]My Talk Page [[Image:Small Blue Acorn.png]]My Contributions 15:45, August 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * I agree with the comment above. You never know what people will put on the page. Also, putting them in a place of power without really knowing what they edit might not be fair to the people who make big edits but don't edit a lot. --User:CarribuChan


 * Dragonfree OVER 4,500 Animal Crossing Wiki EDITS 17:04, August 6, 2010 (UTC)
 * i agree wit ta first too comments. NintendoLover  18:02, August 6, 2010 (UTC)
 * However, if a user was to gain adminship by posting several hundred blog comments, the wiki administration would be filled with people who just want to chat/play online/etc. Dragonfree  OVER 4,500 Animal Crossing Wiki EDITS 19:00, August 6, 2010 (UTC)
 * I Support! Psiloveyou 19:57, August 6, 2010 (UTC)
 * I think that when you vote for some-one, it's because you trust that they'll do well. You will know if they've made lots of page or blog edits, if you actually get to know and trust them. We all know that Fan12 wasn't elected as roll-backer, due to extreme amounts of blog edits. We knew that (Or at least I did) because we became friends and knew each-other, and beacuse we knew each-other, we knew who would make a better roll-backer/admin. These votes should be made on trust, not edits.......thank you. Minifig-me, check out my page! 20:05, August 6, 2010 (UTC)
 * Where is Fan12? Dragonfree  OVER 4,500 Animal Crossing Wiki EDITS 20:07, August 6, 2010 (UTC)
 * He's MIA (Missing In Action) Minifig-me, check out my page! 20:08, August 6, 2010 (UTC)
 * ;P-Anteater99 (I am crazzzy like Redd!!) Nosegay2.gif 21:20, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Blog comment bumping
18:17, August 12, 2010 (UTC)

On many forums across the web, there is a rule that one is not allowed to 'bump' a topic, that is, post a comment after a certain amount of time is elapsed. The 's equivalent of a forum thread is of course, blogs and blog comments. Imposing a restriction of after, say, 2 weeks, a user is not permitted to add a comment to a blog post would free up Recent Changes somewhat, and allow users to quickly get to the 'hot topics' without having to scroll through several n00bs posting on topics that are over a month old. Dragonfree OVER 4,500 Animal Crossing Wiki EDITS

I can't say I've ever noticed this to be a problem. Bumping blogs on a Wikia isn't as annoying as a thread on a forum, and they're easy to ignore as they only appear as an unclickable mention. If anything, constant edits to an article would be more annoying than bumped blogs, especially as they're few and far between :) - MerrytonRyan 20:18, August 12, 2010 (UTC)


 * I don't think it's a big deal, actually, bumping blogs has sometimes improved the wiki. Minifig-me, check out my page! 19:51, August 14, 2010 (UTC)
 * No idea what this means... Super  (duh... )Alpaca Doggie Mask.gif 16:35, August 15, 2010 (UTC)

Block IPs
This topic usually comes up when an annoying anon user keeps vandalizing. This means that to edit, a person must create an account. No unregistered users. I am not personally supporting this now, I will vote later, but this has been brought up. An example of a wiki with this is MarioWiki. Super  (duh... )Alpaca  16:35, August 15, 2010 (UTC)