Inkipedia:Proposals

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Inkipedia has a series of policies in place to help maintain site function. Sometimes, however, changes to these policies are necessary, or new policies need to be introduced in order to maintain the structure of the site. Proposals serve as a uniform system to make major changes to the function of the site, such as changing the layout of character pages, redesigning heavy-use templates, changing the site's skin, or otherwise making a change that would impact a large amount of readers/editors.

When a proposal is made, users will have three weeks to place their votes—ending midnight UTC of the final day. Users may only vote for one option per proposal, but can change their vote during the duration of voting. If a proposal has fifteen unanimous supporting votes, it may pass with administrator support in only two weeks instead. Should there be a high contention between votes, an administrator may choose to extend the proposal by two weeks only once. A proposal wins by simple majority.

A failed proposal cannot be resubmitted for another 90 days after its initial end date. Any proposal needs three votes to pass. Any user that is blocked during the proposal process will have their vote removed. Please do not submit "joke" or otherwise unhelpful proposals.

If a proposal is deemed unnecessary, whether due to a lack of significance, possible damage to the site or security of its users, or clearly undeveloped/vandalistic in nature, may have three administrator votes to veto the proposal—instantly moving it to Failed proposals. This must be posted publicly, preferably under a new header.

Proposal types
There are several types of proposals: If the supporting vote wins, the policy is integrated. If oppose wins, the policy will not be integrated. Neutral votes are to be considered an official "abstaining from vote" position, neither supporting the passing of the policy or opposing it. A proposal with neutral votes cannot pass early. ==(insert proposal name here)== (insert details of proposal here and sign with ~)
 * Boolean proposals

Start date: --

End date: -- + 3 weeks

Discussion
These are proposals featuring multiple options instead of the yes/no format. The outcome with the highest votes wins, but any option needs three votes to pass. If the proposal needs to be extended, only the highest two options will proceed. Please do not exceed more than six options. ==(insert proposal here)== (insert summary of proposal here and sign with ~)
 * Multi-option proposals

Start date: --

End date: -- + 3 weeks

Suggested outcome 1
(insert details here)

Suggested outcome 2
(insert details here)

Suggested outcome 3
(insert details here)

Support
(repeat for any additional outcomes)

Do nothing
Vote in this section if you oppose all options, or if you are neutral, or if you wish to abstain.

Active proposals
To create a proposal, copy the above text to Inkipedia:Proposals/Active.

Proposals archive

 * [ [Inkipedia:Proposals/Passed|Passed policy proposals]]
 * [ [Inkipedia:Proposals/Failed|Failed policy proposals]]