Memory Beta:Community article

Due to the youth of this wiki, many important characters, places, and concepts are dismally small, or only cover the basic canonical facts. The community articles project is intended to fix that problem by selecting a single article for the entire community to work on. New articles will be chosen after the current community article sits for seven days with a major edit.

Voting

Voting will take place by Borda count. To place your vote, make a numbered list ranking the articles from most-needed to least. Each vote will receive a corresponding number of points (i.e., your #1 choice will receive x points, your #2 will receive x-1, etc.). The article with the highest number of total points will become the new community article. After each vote, the winner will be removed from each user's lists, although you are welcome to re-add it later if you still feel it needs attention.

A note about number of votes - it doesn't matter how many pages you vote for; #1 votes on shorter or longer lists will carry the same weight. That being said, consider keeping your list fairly concise... any vote lower than #5 will likely (but not definitely) not affect the outcome of the vote.

Votes

Chops

1. Harry Kim
2. Neelix
3. Tom Paris
4. James T. Kirk
5. Starfleet Command
6. Odo
7. Phlox
8. Hikaru Sulu
9. Reginald Barclay
10. Jadzia Dax
11. Betazoid
12. William T. Riker (too fragmented)

The Doctor

1. Leonard H. McCoy
2. Hikaru Sulu
3. Reginald Barclay
4. Klingon Empire
5. Borg
6. Tal Shiar

Turtletrekker

1. Starfleet Command
2. Sarek
3. Corat Damar
4. Hikaru Sulu
5. Seven of Nine (There's not much that I could personally add here, but she's a major character and needs attention.
6. Alexander Rozhenko
7. Saavik

8of5

1. Federation Relations with the Klingon Empire
2. Federation history
3. Mirror universe history
4. Dominion
5. Arex Na Eth
6. Shiboline M'Ress

Data Noh

1. Mirror Universe
2. Data
3. The Doctor
4. Seven of Nine
5. Jack Crusher

Past votes

In order to prevent accidental tactical voting, votes are not officially tallied until a new community article is needed.

20 May 2006: Beverly Crusher

No-one seems interested in Data, so we'll move on. Two votes are needed for a win. Polling lists as of count are here.

BALLOT 1:

• Beverly Crusher: 2
• James T. Kirk: 1
• Seven of Nine: 1

Beverly Crusher is our new Community Article! I've removed the article from our lists. --Chops 22:28, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

07 June 2006: Klingon Empire

I hope I'm not overstepping my bounds, but I thought that the Crusher article had been up for a few weeks and was now largely complete, I would count the vote for the next article.

BALLOT 2:

• Klingon Empire: 2
• James T. Kirk: 1
• Seven of Nine: 1

The Klingon Empire is our new Community Article! I've removed the article from out lists. --The Doctor, 23:13, 07 June 2006 (UTC)

17 July 2006: Kes

If no one has any objections I think its time we changed to Community Article. The Klingon Empire has been up for over a month and no one has show any interest. I know we all like to pursue are own projects but I think that the CA is a great idea for everyone to tackle the articles that no one wants to write on their own.

BALLOT 3:

• Kes: 2
• The Doctor: 1
• Seven of Nine: 1

Kes is our new Community Article! I've removed the article from our lists. --The Doctor, 12:27, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Because of waning interest in the community article process, the following were selected without vote: The Doctor (1 Oct 2006), James T. Kirk (10 Jan 2007), and 'Til Death (2 April 2007).

23 April 2007: Cardassian Union

An attempt to revitalize the community article project. Please note the new election process, as instant runoff was proving useless with the broad range of possible candidates. Using a scale of 13 points, the following were the three highest-ranked articles:

• Cardassian Union: 32
• Hikaru Sulu: 29
• Reginald Barclay and Sarek (tie): 21

The Cardassian Union is our new Community Article! I've removed the article from our lists. -- Data Noh 04:44, 23 April 2007 (UTC)