User:SignpostMarv Martin/Sandbox/Voting proposal

Inspired by the vote-links Microformat, I'm suggesting that voting for proposals on the wiki be done in the following format:

1. Create, or otherwise reserve 3 articles within your user-space
   1. User:SignpostMarv Martin/vote/for
   2. User:SignpostMarv Martin/vote/against
   3. User:SignpostMarv Martin/vote/abstain (as defined in the vote-links microformat, votes default to abstain, and this page isn't necessary.
2. When you come across a proposal, add a wiki link to it on the relevant page.

• This frees up the talk page to discussion about the proposal
• This makes it easier to reduce fraudulent voting (editing other's votes on a page, then attempting to bury them)
• This makes it easier to verify voting, as the only edits in those 3 articles should be performed by the person making the vote, with no exceptions
• Results of a vote can be viewed by accessing the Special:Whatlinkshere page for the proposal, and tallying the votes.

If you have any additional pros/cons, please sign them when adding them.

User-space based voting

Pros

• Combats fraud
• Keeps talk page to just discussion about a proposal rather than a series of Seconded, Against comments.
• Allows people to pass a quick vote without having to read through the discussion
• A person can change their vote without having to alter the edit history of an article.

Cons

• Ballot counting would involve reading through the "what links here" page (ZOMG DEMOCRACY :-D)

Category based voting

Pros

• MediaWiki does the counting

Cons

• Database spam