Wikipedia:Voting

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Voting on Wikipedia is explained in any of the following:

Policy

• Wikipedia is not a democracy
• Wikipedia:Consensus

Projects

• WP:WikiProject Democracy
• WP:WikiProject Voting systems

Process

• Wikipedia:Elections
  • The yearly ArbCom elections
• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship
• Wikipedia:Votes for deletion
• Wikipedia:Centralized discussions

Essays

• Wikipedia:Straw polls
• Wikipedia:Supermajority
• Wikipedia:Polling is not a substitute for discussion; Shell of the nutshell: "Polling is only meant to facilitate discussion"
• Wikipedia:Voting is not evil
• Wikipedia:Of course it's voting; Nutshell: " Consensus is weighted voting"

See also

• Wikipedia:Requests for Comments
• Category:Times that large groups of Wikipedians supported something
• meta:Wikimedia Foundation elections
• c:Commons:Centralized discussions