Template talk:Merge/Voting archive

message: Round one of the voting has closed.  It was held from 3 July 2005 at 18:30 (UTC) until 10 July 2005 at 18:30 (UTC).  The goal was to establish both the wording and the visual style of the three primary "merge" templates: ,  and .
The complete voting archive may be viewed.
Style vote result
Thirty-one ballots were cast: nineteen for style "Y," eleven for style "X" and one for neither.  If the "neither" vote is counted, style "Y" received 61.29% of votes.  If the "neither" vote is not counted, style "Y" received 63.33% of votes.  Under either system, style "Y" prevails with a rough consensus.
Wording vote result
Twenty-three people cast ballots.  Among "first choices," wording "E" received 11 votes (one vote shy of a majority).  Wordings "A" and "B" each received 4 votes.  Wording "D" received 3 votes.  Wording "C" received 1 vote.
Upon factoring the secondary choices (each valued at ½ vote) wording "E" received 13 ½ votes.  Wording "B" received 7 ½ votes.  Wording "A" received 6 votes. Wording "D" received 3 ½ votes.  Wording "C" received 2 ½ votes.
Having received a plurality of votes, wording "E" prevails for the time being.  Because it did not receive a majority of votes, a one-week runoff vote shall be held between it and the second-place wording "B."  Voters who selected either wording "E" or wording "B" as their first choices need not vote again (unless they've changed their minds).  All others (including previous voters and those who did not vote) are invited to vote now.
=== Runoff vote — Wording ===
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Because no wording received a majority of votes, a runoff vote between the two most popular wordings ("B" and "E") shall be held from 10 July 2005 at 22:00 (UTC) until 17 July 2005 at 22:00 (UTC).
Voters who selected either wording "B" or wording "E" as their first choices need not vote again (unless they've changed their minds).  All others (including previous voters and those who did not vote) are invited to vote now.
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Wording "B":
Merging this article or section with other article title may be desirable.   (Discuss)
*The following people preferred wording B to wording E in the earlier poll: DoubleBlue, MeltBanana, Hedley and Marsch.
Wording "E":
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with other article title.   (Discuss)
*The following people preferred wording E to wording B in the earlier poll: Lifeisunfair, DES, James F, Tznkai, Beland, Oleg Alexandrov, Brian0918, Excession, Gemberling, Radiant, Smyth and Laura Scudder.
*E. Radiant_>|< 12:18, July 11, 2005 (UTC)
::Add *Wording "B" or *Wording "E" (followed by an optional brief explanation), and sign your vote with: ~~~~
*E I still prefer E (which I created) but B would be perfectly acceptable to me. DES 13:02, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I share your assessment of the consensus.  I expected the non-authoritative options to collectively prove more popular than the authoritative options, but I didn't expect one specific wording to pull so far ahead of the pack.  I foresaw that wording "D" would not be terribly successful, but I expected wording "A" to receive more support than it did.  (I had anticipated a runoff vote between it and either wording "B" or wording "E.")  —Lifeisunfair 08:21, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

text: As I previously indicated, I wholeheartedly agree that this vote merely determined the general direction that the templates will take ("box," instead of "no box"), thereby settling the edit war.  Obviously, I'm partial to my design, but variations absolutely should be considered (with the goal of satisfying as many people as possible).  —Lifeisunfair 08:21, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Request for comment (round 2)

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Because no wording received a majority of votes, a runoff vote between the two most popular wordings ("B" and "E") shall be held from 10 July 2005 at 22:00 (UTC) until 17 July 2005 at 22:00 (UTC).
Voters who selected either wording "B" or wording "E" as their first choices need not vote again (unless they've changed their minds).  All others (including previous voters and those who did not vote) are invited to vote now.
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Wording "B":
Merging this article or section with other article title may be desirable.   (Discuss)
*The following people preferred wording B to wording E in the earlier poll: DoubleBlue, MeltBanana, Hedley and Marsch.
Wording "E":
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with other article title.   (Discuss)
*The following people preferred wording E to wording B in the earlier poll: Lifeisunfair, DES, James F, Tznkai, Beland, Oleg Alexandrov, Brian0918, Excession, Gemberling, Radiant, Smyth and Laura Scudder.
*E. Radiant_>|< 12:18, July 11, 2005 (UTC)
::Add *Wording "B" or *Wording "E" (followed by an optional brief explanation), and sign your vote with: ~~~~
*E I still prefer E (which I created) but B would be perfectly acceptable to me. DES 13:02, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Runoff vote &mdash; Wording 

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I interpret the vote as having E as a clear front runner as well. It received 11/23 first-choice votes, with A&B tied at second (well-back with only 4 votes each). If one considers that C is identical to E except for lack of "Discuss" link, that approximate wording accounts for half the votes. Among second-choice votes, A&B led with a tie of 4 each. Only B&E received third-choice votes but that's not too surprising considering there were two Authoritative choices and three Request choices.
Among first-choice votes, Authoritative choices (A&D) received 7/23 votes and Request choices (B,C,&E) received 16 (70%). I think a pretty clear consensus is shown for a Request-style wording. Perhaps more improvement could be made to the wording to better satisfy the concerns of Authoritative voters (It has been requested that article or section  be merged ?) but a run-off vote was promised and should be carried out. DoubleBlue (Talk) 07:33, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I share your assessment of the consensus.  I expected the non-authoritative options to collectively prove more popular than the authoritative options, but I didn't expect one specific wording to pull so far ahead of the pack.  I foresaw that wording "D" would not be terribly successful, but I expected wording "A" to receive more support than it did.  (I had anticipated a runoff vote between it and either wording "B" or wording "E.")  —Lifeisunfair 08:21, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Post-vote comments &mdash; Wording 

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I believe that the "neither" vote should count and that Y has 3/5 of the vote. That, i believe, only shows a preference to not have a plain-text message and, instead, mark it off in a box of some sort. I think the next step should be discussion to increase consensus in the style of the box. Perhaps the greyscale box proposed by gkhan would be better, perhaps another colour would be less obnoxious on Netoholic's eyes. Whatever. I would hope that an attempt to gain a consensus box style is the next step. DoubleBlue (Talk) 07:33, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: As I previously indicated, I wholeheartedly agree that this vote merely determined the general direction that the templates will take ("box," instead of "no box"), thereby settling the edit war.  Obviously, I'm partial to my design, but variations absolutely should be considered (with the goal of satisfying as many people as possible).  —Lifeisunfair 08:21, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Post-vote comments &mdash; Style