MarioWiki talk:Poll selection

Surprise, I actually had to make this page to make a comment. Anywho... So, now that we have a bunch of poll ideas on the page, how is it decided what the next week's poll is going to be?

Yeah, I want to know that too.

Hey, somebody read the talk page! :o *tumbleweed* But on a more serious note, can somebody answer?


 * I'm fairly certain that it's random. 18:14, 11 September 2008 (EDT)
 * Oh, wait; it says "Chosen by Preference" on the page. Must be chosen by Steve, then.
 * I believe so; maybe by a few other Sysops. 18:32, 11 September 2008 (EDT)
 * It's not going down on the sysop forum, I can say that... so unless it goes down in a secret chat room it probably is Steve or Wayoshi, who created this feature. 18:45, 11 September 2008 (EDT)
 * Steve just added a poll nomination thing at the bottom of the page; Maybe he saw this discussion. I'm thinking there should be a rule that you can't vote for your own, though; any thoughts?

Subjects and Archiving
Do they have to be about Mario? At the moment, nothing is written regarding the subject of the poll. (also, as I read the poll suggestions, I have a feeling I've seen more than half of these on the forums... hmm...) Another thing: on the archives page, shouldn't we record results, as well? I mean, or else, it doesn't have much meaning...
 * Garlic Man, I think your Mario girls poll is a good idea, but we should add more to it: Captain Syrup and Birdo should probably be on there (well... assuming that that wouldn't count as us expressing an opinion on the gender controversy). 22:47, 14 September 2008 (EDT)
 * Eh, I meant girls that were actually in Mario games, but we could add Syrup, I suppose. Though I don't consider Birdo to be a girl, lol.

Bad Idea
Why is this now like the Proposals page - Support, Oppose, Comments, etc? I don't like this idea any more. What was wrong with this system before? Oh, and why can't we at least put something decent on the Main Page instead of a message about something weird going on. Surely we can put a sort of filler Poll in for now?

This is a nice poll system. You guys seem to be getting a lot of participation in your polls, which average about 1,500 voters a week. With that large amount, we should be doing daily polls instead of weekly. We should also not completely limit poll questions to Mario polls, we could probably occasionally add in stuff about Nintendo and their other franchises. If we keep limiting ourselves to Mario polls, it'll soon become monotonous and we'll be running out of poll ideas. If we want to make the daily poll idea to work, we need a faster method of deciding the poll question of the day. 23:12, 20 October 2008 (EDT)

what is your favorite character?
yoshi mario luigi peach toad daisy birdo toadette wario waluigi boo dry bones

Um can you please sigh your comment next time. Ambidextria

I have my own polls on my page!
I have started making polls for my main page. Zafum

Hey Zafum can u put your own polls on your User/Talk pages?

Organisation
I think we need to find a way to organise these or at least get rid of the bad ones.
 * I agree with you, Blue koopa. I also think we should delete repeated polls, but keep the "original" ones. There are two pairs of repeated polls. We should delete these ones.

Who's in charge of deleting opposed or repeated polls anyway?
 * I think Steve is the one who is supposed to do that. 07:37, 7 January 2009 (EST)
 * Well, he's doing a bad job of it. we already have 102 polls. -

Yes, polls with more oppose votes hould be erased as those with no votes, the repited ones and the non-Mario related

I agree, there are WAY two many polls. I think someone should make a proposal for organizing and deleting the polls.

How do you start making a poll? -Supermariofan121

Repeated polls
SO, I'm here to tell you guys that there are WAY TOO many repeated polls. I think anyone could delete these polls, because the creators don't do that. I just need ONE positive answer to start doing that. I know I'm not a Sysop or a Patroller, but WE must do it NOW. Please comment soon.
 * Doit, do it!

Someone should make a proposal about this!
 * Ok, I was mad when I wrote that. I can't do it without a Sysop's permission. I'll do a Proposal about this. BTW, can someone help me with the deadline? 20:38, 27 February 2009 (EST)


 * If you do it today the deadline will be friday March 6th 20:00, if its tomorrow, Saturday, March 7th 20:00

CREATORS: PLEASE; IF YOU SEE YOUR POLL HAS MANY OPPOSES, ERASE IT :)
 * Tucayo: Sadly, I don't think they will erase their polls. IMO you should talk with Steve. I'm sure he'll make a good decision about this problem. 17:14, 14 March 2009 (EDT)

Zafum said my poll (favorite Boo species) is a repeat. I don't see any other favorite Boo species polls.


 * Dry Paratroopa: Zafum is wrong. I don't see any other polls like that either. All the users: As you can see above, I already thought of making a Proposal about the repeated polls. Well, I think I really need to do it. However, I would be glad if someone else helped me with it. Please comment soon. (And when I say "soon", I mean NOW!! :P) 12:35, 19 March 2009 (EDT)

Votes problems
Ive nooticed that some polls have vote-counting problems, that maybe because some people use sigs to vote, i think the page should say sigs arent permitted
 * I agree. This page loads way to slow anyway. 18:33, 17 April 2009 (EDT)

I'm deleting the yoshi's gender poll as it has 9 opposers and only 1 support (the creator).Lu-igi board 17:22, 23 April 2009 (GMT)

K guys, here I am again. I would like to know if I could delete the polls which are repeated, the non Mario-related ones and those that have 2 more opposers than supporters. Thanks to the user who answers this. :P 18:46, 16 June 2009 (EDT)

Deleting Polls
Is anyone allowed to delete polls elegible 4 deletion? Because there are some polls that r elegible and I want to delete them.

Which ones? To me, they look like they are all following the requirements. Yoshario'''

Polls During Awards
After some advise from Steve and a bit of thought, I have rescinded my proposal on putting Mario Awards III on the Main Page – now there is a link directly to there from the poll instead. Therefore, new polls every week will actually help get fresh voters (hopefully) for both, and with all the suggestions, I'm sure this can continue as normal. 22:54, 18 June 2009 (EDT)