ENG VAR British English American English International English no specification for English The language variant used in this article is a topic that seems to have created tension between some editors in the past This poll is simply to investigate which demographic editors are wanting to write this article for Simply majority consensus first past the post has been asked for before It s in the archives There are still many who are not happy with the article leading to occasional calls for change and extra work for editors Personally I have no opinion on the Variant dialect used however I do see that it is a possible source of ongoing tensions As significant time and effort is put into the discussion of language used in this article I d like to contribute to a reduction in this workload in a constructive way Rather than have another drive to address these concerns in the same way and to avoid creating workload for people outside the ISS editors I ll open a long term poll No time frame is given and no call for change is given by myself or implied This is simply to gather peoples preferences and ideas It may help guide change later though if someone wants to call for change based on a tally or changes that occur to the tally over the life of the article You are invited to state a preference for just one language if you want You are invited to say you don t care if you want to You are invited to rank the dialects variants in order 1st 2nd 3rd etc of preference if you want You are invited to rank more than one dialect equally for example you can state a first preference and two second preferences if you want No request for changed behavior is given or implied Editors are invited to contribute in any way they can regardless of their language abilities There are plenty of editors willing to assist with grammar punctuation and dialect without needing help from the Wikipedia English embassy or is it this one these embassies are designed amongst other things to help people contribute to Wikipedia when they are otherwise unable to do so because of language barriers I ve used them before At some point when there are enough responses to warrant I ll tally the results using the Ranked Pairs system which after a study of systems that might apply best to a talkpage article which has fallen into this situation is the best I can find without asking the higher ups for help I m assuming here we can all be mature enough to find some common ground ourselves Ranked pairs is a voting system that selects a single winner using votes that may or may not express preferences When a voter does not give a full list of preferences they are assumed for the purpose of the count to prefer the language they have ranked over all other languages Other voting systems that take into account preferences like two round and Exhaustive ballot wouldn t take into account the views of people who have been so upset that they have expressed their discontent and left without returning Ranked pairs allows these strong views to be weighed fairly in a poll The first past the post system may discourage some people from expressing their sincere views I d prefer people express themselves freely Now and then I ll tally the results again if someone asks or there have been a good few more If I leave in a few years someone else is welcome to do so If this problem is alleviated by the creation of separate Wikipedias for EN GB and EN American and EN INT Wikipedia please don t use this poll s results on those new article pages If separate wikis were created I d for one be happy to contribute to all 3 I already actually contribute on foreign wikis regularly where I can t speak a single word of the language it s all good As for my vote as I ve said I have no opinion but will abstain anyhow I d rather offer impartial assistance to discover and repair the cause of the discontent and I understand there may well be people who wouldn t want it fixed but would rather things continue as they are As a footnote I d like everyone to consider the alt descriptions for images which are for the blind At the moment I haven t been able to keep up with these on the new images for this article