Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Democracy

Centralized discussions

Most of the links to various centralized discussions don't belong on this page, in my opinion. These discussions exist to help users reach consensus regarding article content, through discussion of sources, Wikipedia policies, and common sense. Consensus is not the result of a simple vote. For example:

Wikipedia:Requests for comment states that "Counting 'votes' is not an appropriate method of determining outcome".

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion (linked here as "Votes for deletion" for some reason, even though that name has been a redirect since 2005) explicitly states, "The debate is not a vote", "Remember that while AfD may look like a voting process, it does not operate like one", and "Consensus is not based on a tally of votes, but on reasonable, logical, policy-based arguments".

Wikipedia:Third opinion states, "Remember that Wikipedia works by consensus, not a vote".

While the other discussion pages regarding article contact may not say so explicitly, the same principle of consensus, rather than voting, applies. "Wikipedia is not a democracy" is a fundamental principle of the encyclopedia itself. Listing these discussions here is likely to mislead users into thinking that sheer numbers alone are what determines Wikipedia's content. I suggest trimming this list to just the pages named at Wikipedia:Elections, and possibly also Wikipedia:List of petitions. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 05:35, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

Update: I've removed these links. Since consensus on Wikipedia is not the result of "one person, one vote", as in a true democracy, links to such discussions were out of place on this page. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 22:46, 18 February 2017 (UTC)

Bonjour, Sangdeboeuf, et merçi pour vos propositions. Please have a look at the differences of democratic participation versus an electocracy. --.js 14:54, 21 February 2017 (UTC)

Discussion participation requested

Project members participation is requested here, I need neutral editors who are not coming from Pakistan to maintain NPOV as if we left this content to the mercy of editors only coming from Pakistan then this content will either be completely censored or coatracked. Sheriff | ☎ 911 | 17:56, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!

A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.

– Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

WP:DEM is confused

WP:DEM is obviously an attempt to make the statement that simply voting has less value than openly reasoned intelligence. "Democracy" means "rule by people". Wikipedia is certainly "an experiment in democracy". However, as the closest the people get to democracy in contemporary society is the occasional vote... confusion that democracy actually means voting is commonplace and understandable. However, stale confusion is the parent of fresh confusion. Could someone change WP:DEM to WP:VOTING or something like that? ~ R.T.G 18:34, 20 March 2020 (UTC)

Merger proposal regarding NSO Group and Pegasus (spyware)

Talk:NSO_Group#Merger_proposal:_merge_Pegasus_(spyware)_into_the_appropriate_section_of_NSO_Group Notrium (talk) 22:17, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Notability of politicians

If a politician is one of two primary politicians for US Congress in 2022, who has had articles written about him with all large state papers in past elections, does that make this candidate notable?

What policy can I look up about this? Quiet2 (talk) 03:34, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

New nav box which hopefully might support the work of WikiProject Democracy

I applaud this WikiProject and its stated goals. I ahve created the navigational box below which I would like to provide here, for discussion.

I hope this will help to promote some of the goals on this Wikiproject, namely; promoting greater editor engagement, promoting increased editor participation in discussions here of policy, guidelines, and editing goals; promoting awarenss and knowledge of various common resources as widely as possible, throughout the Wikipedia community; and lastly, enriching and expanding our community as a whole, by bringing as many disparate and wide-ranging segments of the Wikiepedia community into increased direct contact, as possible. I appreciate this Wikiproject and its work, and I would welcome any comments or feedback. Thanks!! Cheers! ---Sm8900 (talk) 🌍 20:15, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

Draft:Democracy in Iraq

I've started a draft article on Democracy in Iraq and would appreciate any assistance! ––FormalDude talk 23:33, 19 June 2022 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a |class= parameter to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to {{WikiProject banner shell}}, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass {{WPBannerMeta}} a new |QUALITY_CRITERIA=custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 16:41, 10 April 2023 (UTC)