User talk:Chris 73/Work
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[edit] How would Polish nobles sign it?
We promise that to ourselves and to our friends and friends of our friends, that we, who are signed under it, will defend the worked solution with our words, deeds and actions, that we will consider compromise as our own, and we will act together, commonly against any person, vandal or misguided, who would try to violate it, but only with accordance to wikipedia rules and without violation of our consciences and feudal privileges(^w^w oops too much reading Polish treaties :))) ). We will act agaisnt such persons with all our might, all our anger and until such person, no matter who they will be, will either cease to violate compromise or join it. We promise ourselves, as equal with equals, free people with free people, that we won't abandon our compromise, we won't change it without agreement of anyone else, we will stand united and indivisible.
(Hundreds and hundreds of signatures follows)
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Szopen 11:11, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- I noticed a couple of errors. Danzig became part of Prussia in 1793. It was a free city until 1939, not 1933. I would suggest, however, that we give the options of 1) always refer to it as Gdansk; 2) refer to it as Gdansk before 1793 and after 1945, Danzig in between; 3) refer to it as Gdansk before 1308 and after 1945, Danzig in between. Otherwise it looks good. The vote should be announced to the various places where votes are announced, so that we get people besides our usual folks. john k 15:10, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks for fixing the errors. About the voting options: This has the problem that votes may be split. See this example for options 1-3 above:
- (1) 4 votes
- (2) 3 votes
- (3) 3 votes
- In this case, (1) wins, even though 6 people prefer it to be Danzig between 1793 and 1945.
- Additionally, we should also decide on the voting period, and the winning margin. We could put it up now for discussion, start the vote on Monday 21st, and have a duration of 2 (3?) weeks. I would list it on Wikipedia:Current surveys and Wikipedia:Announcements, and maybe even list it on the Recent Changes header. The RC header should also be announced on the Admin noticeboard (and get more exposure?). I would also contact users related to the various edit wars on their talk page. As for the counting, I think an absolute majority (50% or more) wins. Sockpuppets and users with very low edit count or very new at Wikipedia may be excluded. (On previous instances, notices appeared on foreign language wikis asking people to vote here). Any thoughts? -- Chris 73 Talk 23:56, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)
- Thanks for fixing the errors. About the voting options: This has the problem that votes may be split. See this example for options 1-3 above:
I would concur, although I generally think that the 1466-1793 period should be treated as a whole, unless Szopen would care to explain how Danzig/Gdansk's position changed after the union with Lithuania. john k 03:03, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
