Wiktionary talk:Votes/pl-2010-10/Parts of speech for number-related terms

This vote should really not be clogged with everyone's favorite option. Instead, there should be a few common solutions a group of people agrees with, everyone who still disagrees can always vote oppose. -- Prince Kassad 14:54, 6 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

I disagree. The vote should contain the options that voters find relevant. In the worst case, the options get very few votes. --Dan Polansky 15:33, 6 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

Then you get a vote where every option has one supporting vote and others have two. You cannot establish consensus like this. -- Prince Kassad 15:36, 6 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

You know, you should first look at what options are really supported by first starting a discussion, and formulating the vote only based on that discussion. You cannot force consensus by offering only options that you find reasonable. The option added by Ruakh, for instance, is also quite likely supported by Msh210 and by EncycloPetey, although EncycloPetey would probably like to see "Numeral" instead of "Number". In any case, the conclusion that you draw--that when there are several options no one option gets significantly more votes than the other options--is unwarranted. --Dan Polansky 15:55, 6 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

Someone should add a voting mechanism. This vote seems to follow the voting mechanism of Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2010-06/Number vs. numeral . That is the following one:

• Voting mechanism: Approval voting, with the caveat that an option must have a supermajority (something like 70% or 66% of voters, though as usual this is left to the closer's discretion). Each voter can support both options, or support exactly one option (implicitly opposing the other), or oppose both options. Abstentions, as usual, do not count in either direction.

--Dan Polansky 15:34, 6 October 2010 (UTC)Reply