Wiktionary:Votes

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	It is not a dictionary entry, nor one of Wiktionary's policies or guidelines; rather, its purpose is to explain certain aspects of Wiktionary's norms, customs, technicalities, or practices. It may reflect differing levels of consensus and vetting.

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Votes formalize and document the consensus-building process and the decisions that the community makes. This page displays the full contents of recent, current and planned votes.

See Wiktionary:Votes/Active to add new votes to the “active” list and remove old ones. Finished votes are added to Wiktionary:Votes/Timeline, an organized archive of previous votes and their results, sorted by the vote end date.

Creating a new vote

	Before starting a new vote
	Change “Title of vote” in associated the field to add a short description, or add the user to after “User:”. Once the vote is created, add it to the list of active votes.


Note: Update the vote list at WT:A.	Note: Update the vote list at WT:B.
Note: Update the vote list at WT:C.

Routine clean-up

For admins, periodically check for orphan votes at Wiktionary:Votes/ for votes and voting templates, including templates for creation of new votes:

Current and new votes

Planned, running and recent votes [edit this list]

(see also: timeline, policy)

Ends	Title	Status/Votes
(=0)	Wiktionary:Table of votes	(=0)

No current or planned votes.

Proposed votes

The following are proposals for new votes, excluding nominations, in cases where the proposer of the vote prefers that the vote is written collaboratively, or where the vote appears to require substantial revision. If you have not created a passing vote yet, it is recommended that you use this section and actively solicit feedback by linking to your proposal in discussion; your vote may have a better chance of passing if it is first reviewed.

Votes may linger here indefinitely. If changes in policy make a proposal irrelevant, the voting page will be requested for deletion. On the other hand, you do not have to be the creator to initiate one of the votes below. Place any votes with a live start date in the section above at least a few days before that start date arrives.