Animal Crossing New Leaf Wiki:Democracy

Democracy is the fundamental process of the wiki's decision-making. It will not always be what everyone agrees to, however, it is the preference of the majority.

Majority
The majority is determined to be whatever is over 50%. For example, if 7 users voted for proposal A and 5 users voted for proposal B, proposal A would become policy.

Discussions
When discussing policy changes on the Forum, a vote will be held after sufficient time has passed, at minimum a week. At this point, votes will be counted, and the policy change will be implemented. If the administrators choose to, the policy change will not be passed, however, all administrators must agree to this.

Canvassing
Canvassing is sending messages to others to inform them of a community discussion. Under certain conditions, it is acceptable to notify other editors of on-going discussions, but messages that are written to influence the outcome rather than to improve the quality of a discussion compromise the consensus building process and may be considered disruptive. Canvassing is looked down upon.

Campaigning
Campaigning is an attempt to sway the person reading the message, through the use of non-neutral tone, wording, or intent. While this may be appropriate as part of an individual discussion, it is inappropriate to canvass with such messages.

Votestacking
Votestacking is an attempt to sway consensus by selectively notifying editors who have or are thought to have a pre-determined point of view or opinion (which may be determined, among other ways, from a userpage notice, such as a userbox, or from user categorisation), and thus encouraging them to participate in the discussion.

Stealth canvassing
Because it is less transparent than on-wiki notifications, the use of email or other off-wiki communication to notify editors is discouraged unless there is a significant reason for not using talk page notifications. Depending on the specific circumstances, sending a notification to a group of editors by email may be looked at more negatively than sending the same message to the same group of people on their talk pages.

Forum shopping
The term "forum shopping", or "asking the other parent", refers to repeatedly asking for additional outside opinions until a desirable opinion is obtained. For instance, if the user is blocked, they can ask for an outside review of said block; if this review concludes that the block was proper, it is generally inappropriate to repeatedly continue to ask for yet another outside review.