Category talk:Closed votes

IMO delete: the benefits of such a category are AFAICT three: The first two reasons do not exist in this case, as (respectively) The third benefit of this category is not enough IMO to keep it. Others may differ. If we do keep it, it should be completely populated, or it's worth less. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 00:14, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
 * 1) the category can be browsed;
 * 2) the page can, at a glance, be seen to be closed (check the bottom line); and
 * 3) tools like CatScan (CategoryIntersect) can be used to search among pages in the category.
 * 1) [[Wiktionary:Votes/Timeline]] is better than a category for that purpose and
 * 2) we have a "decision" section at the bottom which is almost always very clear.

kept per no consensus. --ElisaVan (talk) 17:29, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

RFC discussion: August–October 2011
Populate, or delete? &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 15:39, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Either really. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:22, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

Kept unfixed. Nominating at RFDO and striking here. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 00:10, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Delete category
On close inspection, this category does not seem to make any sense, so rather than waste our time with another RFDO, I'll go ahead and orphan/delete it. These are the current members of the category as of September 2016. Total: 16 members.


 * Wiktionary:Votes/pl-2014-03/CFI: Removing usage in a well-known work 3
 * Votes/pl-2014-04/Unified Chinese
 * Votes/2010-09/Enabling AbuseFilter extension
 * Votes/pl-2012-03/Moving "Coordinate terms" up in ELE
 * Votes/pl-2014-03/Unified Norwegian
 * Votes/pl-2010-03/Placename namespace
 * Votes/pl-2007-06/Placenames 2-A
 * Wiktionary:Votes/sy-2012-04/User:Chuck Entz for admin
 * Wiktionary:Votes/sy-2011-01/User:Aulis Eskola for desysop
 * Wiktionary:Votes/bt-2012-07/User:Bot-Jagwar for bot status
 * Wiktionary:Votes/sy-2012-05/User:Connel MacKenzie for de-sysop and de-checkuser
 * Wiktionary:Votes/bt-2012-06/User:JAnDbot for bot status
 * Wiktionary:Votes/bt-2012-04/User:WarddrBOT for bot status
 * Votes/pl-2010-05/Names of specific entities
 * Votes/pl-2010-05/Placenames with linguistic information 2
 * Votes/pl-2011-12/Merging proper nouns into nouns

--Daniel Carrero (talk) 19:42, 1 September 2016 (UTC)