MarioWiki:Proposals/Archive/33

Automatically Removing Fan Votes from FA Nominations

AUTOMATICALLY REMOVE FAN VOTES 7-0
There have been far too many times where I have seen someone support or oppose the nomination or denomination of a featured article simply because of the fact that they like the character or enjoy the game or whatever. These kinds of votes have no place here, where articles are featured based on their ability to represent the best that the wiki has to offer, not on any personal preference. However, we still have to go through the process of getting three people, at least one of which has to be an admin, to vote to remove his vote and then waiting 24 hours before finally being able to remove it. Enough of these votes can stall either kind of nomination until they have no way of passing when they shouldn't even be there in the first place. So, what I propose is to outright disallow these kinds of votes from being used. If they are used, they're to be removed without going through the longer removal process (for unfeature nominations) or deleting the reasons and leaving the vote (for feature nominations).

Proposer: GreenDisaster (talk)
Deadline: March 30, 2013, 23:59 GMT

Support

1. GreenDisaster (talk) Supporting.
2. Yoshi876 (talk) Per proposal, this should hopefully get rid of the fanvote stopping Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time getting unfeatured. EDIT: Articles should be featured/unfeatured on (lack of) quality, not I like this
3. Goomba (talk) but i liek dat game hav it feachured rite nao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Support; that example is not a vote, just pure bias.
4. King Pikante (talk) Per proposal.
5. LeftyGreenMario (talk) This proposal is made by my favorite color! It should pass! But really, those types of votes do nothing other than unnecessarily slow the FA process. We should remove them on site. Per proposal.
6. BowserJunior (talk) Per all.
7. newSMBU (talk) — Here's what it is up to today (no user cited is real, just examples):

   "mariofan3718429 (talk) Plz feature this game cuz i liek it!!!!! PLZ!!!!!!"

   "wiiu4ever (talk) its an awsome charcter so it shuld be fetured"

   "koopaling (talk) i hate gombas so it must be unfetured"

   "yoshi2001 (talk) yoshi is so cute he must be fetured he is sooooo cute!!!"

   Things like these should definitely be cleared out. Per all.