Wikipedia:Current surveys

WP:CS does not stand for Wikipedia:Cite sources; WP:CITE goes there.

In order to get more input from the Wikipedia community on important questions, it is sometimes useful to conduct a survey of community opinion. This page lists surveys or polls that are currently being held on various talk pages. It also contains links to debates, discussions and straw polls. In general it's preferable to hold discussion first.

See also Category:Wikipedia proposals.

If policy issues remain unresolved after discussion and straw polling, they can go to Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Policies (the "dispute resolution" variant of this page).

Instructions for listing surveys

Please add new opinion surveys to the list under the appropriate heading. Add a short description of what the survey is about. Note the starting date of the survey and the date the survey will end, if applicable.

After a survey period ends, it may be removed from the list (however, it should remain for at least a short time after the survey ends, to allow anyone interested to view the results). If no closing date is indicated, the survey may be removed from the list when it appears the question is no longer being actively considered. Survey lists are not archived here; to find older surveys and polls, consult this page's history.

Purpose of surveys

Surveys may be used as part of dispute resolution, or to solicit opinions before making significant changes. They can be useful in developing consensus when community opinion is not immediately obvious in normal discussion. For example, a survey may bring in opinions from people who agree with one position, but don't join the discussion because they don't feel they have anything original to add.

For ideas on designing a survey, see Wikipedia:Straw polls. The results of a survey are not binding, and may be subject to interpretation. A survey may sometimes be called a poll, and it may involve voting for different options, but it is not the same thing as an election. For information on elections related to Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Elections.

Opinion surveys should be used to determine whether a consensus exists, not to decide which side "wins". Successful surveys and polls can never generate consensus, they can only show an existing consensus, if any. Using a survey may be useful because some people who disagree will nevertheless recognize and accept the consensus opinion of the community.

Polls

• Talk:Bulgarian vocabulary. Should the page be named "Bulgarian vocabulary" or "Bulgarian lexis"? 19:31, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
• Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (biographies)#proposal A proposal to clarify the meaning of "Nationality" in the Manual of Style for Biographies -- should the "nationality" in the lead section normally men the person's citizenship, or the person's possibly complex ethhnic heritage. DES ^(talk) 19:10, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
• Talk:2005 Atlantic hurricane season#Straw_poll - Should the storms section (summarizing each storm) be in the season article, have a single separate article, or an article for each storm? Survey opened January 10, 2006, no closing date. --AySz88^-^ 17:29, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
• Talk:Shiloh_Shepherd_Dog#Straw_Poll_-_History_Section - How should registry information be included in the history of the breed? Survey opened January 5, 2006, no closing date. .:.Jareth.:. ^babelfish 18:35, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
• Talk:Qur'an/Picture Controversy#Straw Poll - Should this image be included on the Qur'an article page? Survey opened January 4, 2006; no closing date. joturner 02:04, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
• Talk:History_of_the_World#Graph_straw_poll - should a certain graph be added to the article? Some users say its 'POV nonsense', other are very much in favour. And of course there are those who say 'polls are evil' and simply revert the changes... more comments and votes appreciated.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 17:09, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
• Talk:Chinese New Years greetings/Poll - should the article be at Kung hei fat choi or Chinese New Year greeting, or should the content be merged into Chinese New Year? 14:44, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
• Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Korean) when to include Hanja in infoboxes of korea-related articles Appleby 00:18, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
• Wikipedia talk:Verifiability#Citation format poll: Format of citations and WP:V examples (SEWilco 06:43, 14 December 2005 (UTC))

Discussions

• Wikipedia:Stable versions - feedback encouraged for a proposed major policy. -- Zondor 01:25, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
• Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English) - today someone put this guideline again under {{proposed}} flag. If I'm allowed a personal remark: this is shameful that such quintessential guideline can't be made stable, on the other hand: IMHO this was the right decision, the guideline has been in bad shape for some time - who wants to help out? --Francis Schonken 00:51, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
  • See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (thorn), for an attempt to solve one of the problems related to WP:UE --Francis Schonken 10:38, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
• wikipedia:naming conventions (people of India and Sri Lanka) (new guideline proposal, currently only content re. use of honorifics in page names regarding these people) --Francis Schonken 10:15, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
• wikipedia:naming conventions (books) (new guideline proposal) --Francis Schonken 10:15, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Ongoing surveys

• Wikipedia:Arbitration policy ratification vote, historical

Deletions

• Articles for deletion
• Templates for deletion
• Categories for deletion
• Stub types for deletion
• Images for deletion
• Redirects for deletion
• Miscellany for deletion
• Deletion review

Article Improvement

• Article improvement drive
• Featured article candidates
• Featured list candidates
• Featured picture candidates
• Collaboration of the week

Comments but no voting

• Peer review - review of articles, usually before submitting them as Featured article candidates

Other ongoing surveys

• Requested moves - moving articles to a new title
• Requests for adminship
• Requests for Comments - comments on article disputes, the behavior of editors, the behavior of administrators, and editor's user names