Hypothetical Hurricanes Wiki:Voting policy

This page documents an official Hypothetical Hurricanes Wiki policy.

It describes a widely accepted standard that all editors should follow. Changes made to it should reflect consensus.

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Below is the voting policy on the Hypothetical Hurricanes Wiki. All users are required to follow it when voting on community surveys, user rights requests, and proposals in general:

Voting guidelines

For most proposals

• To vote, you must be an editor on the wiki (or a member of our community chat) for at least one month and must have at least 50 article (mainspace) edits. Unsure if you meet those requirements? Check your contributions.
  • You may not vote if you faced a punishment on the wiki's community chat (i.e., being blocked) in the past month.
  • Additionally, please ensure your response is civil, legitimate, and has good grammar. If you are unable to correct it, ask another user to do it for you.
  • If you don't meet any of the requirements above, your vote will be struck through and will be marked as invalid by a moderator alongside the reasoning for its invalidation.
• You may only vote one time, by using the voting templates listed in the voting templates category.
  • In Discussions, you are unable to use the aforementioned templates, but you can still express your opinion by commenting on it by typing "Support", "Neutral Leaning Support", etc.
• Please supply a legitimate reason after you cast your vote. Reasons that are not legitimate will have your vote be removed.
• Votes may not be anonymous. You must have something indicating that your vote was cast by you (i.e., a signature). You can sign your posts with four tildes (~), like this: ~~~~. You can also click the signature icon on the edit toolbar.

In addition to these, here are specific rulesets for other voting methods, if applicable:

Featured article polls

Each month, the community has the opportunity to vote for the Featured Article of the Month (AOTM). The poll allows users to select up to three articles they believe should be featured - the winner will be crowned the Article of the Month. The winning article, or featured article, will be featured in the main page's featured article section for a month, while the runner-up article will be featured in the main page's slider for the same period of time. It is recommended that the article submission process start at any day, during the first three weeks of each month. The voting process will then commence and will last for three days, as will any runoff polls that may occur.

In case of a tie between featured articles, a runoff poll will be held. For the runner-up articles, in case of a tie, each tied article will be given an equal amount of time in the slider (e.g. if there's a tie between 2 articles, each will be featured for two weeks).

Policies for this contest include:

• Voting is limited to one per person, regardless of whether it is through an alternative account or IP.
• Submitted articles must be mainspace articles — for example, articles in a sandbox (User:Example/Sandbox) or in blog posts (User blog:Example/2020 season) cannot be submitted, as these are personal userspaces and cannot be easily seen by everyone.
• Individuals are not able to vote for their own articles.
• To ensure accurate voting, it is requested that each voter includes their username upon casting their vote. This information is only used to check if the user is eligible for voting (see below) and will not be revealed publicly.
• To participate in the voting process, an individual must have at least 100 edits and must have been an active member of the wiki for at least one month.

Community surveys

The wiki conducts four surveys annually: two staff surveys in February and August, and two community surveys in May and November. The staff surveys are intended to gather feedback on the performance of each moderator in their role, while the community surveys are used to gather feedback on areas that could be improved on the wiki. The staff surveys last for one week, while community surveys are open for the entire month.

Responses that violate the site's rules will not be included in the final results, and a link will be provided to a separate document where they can be reviewed. This document will also include an explanation for the deletion of the response.

For example, if a response is blank, the document will state that it was blank. If a response contains inappropriate content such as harassment of staff members or jokes, it will be removed and replaced with a message stating its deletion, and providing a link to the separate document where the deleted responses can be reviewed along with explanations for the deletion.

In addition to the policies already in place, the following recommendations should be kept in mind when providing feedback through both types of surveys:

• Please ensure your response is civil, legitimate, and has good grammar. Content that violates wiki policy may be removed and kept for the sake of transparency, but this does not apply to all Terms of Service violations.
• Only one account should be used to provide feedback.
• You may, if you choose, include your username when providing feedback. This information will only be used for internal statistics, such as measuring community interest in a specific idea, and will not be disclosed publicly.

Supermajority system

The supermajority system (SM or SMJ) is the voting system that applies to all consensuses on the Hypothetical Hurricanes Wiki. Generally, a vote will pass once a three-fifths (60%) supermajority is reached, although supermajorities for requests for rights may be higher. The supermajority is calculated by summing the values for each vote — where Support equals 100, Neutral Leaning Support equals 75, Neutral equals 50, Neutral Leaning Oppose equals 25, and Oppose equals 0 — multiplying the respective values for each vote by the amount of users that voted for that category, and diving by the number of voters. Thus:

$\text{SMJ} = \sum \frac{S_v 100 + NS_v 75 + N_v 50 + NO_v 25 + O_v 0}{V}$

where S_v, NS_v, N_v, NO_v, and O_v are the number of voters for each category, and V is the number of voters in total.

For example: if there is a vote where 16 users voted, of which 6 supported, 2 went neutral leaning support, 3 were neutral, 2 went neutral leaning oppose, and 3 opposed, you'd have:

${\text{SMJ}}={\frac {6\times 100+2\times 75+3\times 50+2\times 25+3\times 0}{16}}={\frac {950}{16}}\approx 59.3\%$

meaning the vote would receive a ~59.3% supermajority, and thus would be unsuccessful.