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I'm against voting on wikis for a number of reasons. Here are some.

1. Stephen Colbert, of the TV show The Colbert Report, asks his guests, "Is George Bush a great president, or the greatest president?" How you phrase a question limits the kind of discussion that you can have, and I think that keeps people from finding creative alternatives and compromise solutions. Sometimes the answer to a question isn't A or B, but ½A plus ½B plus a mix of Q, X, and L.
2. Voting makes winners and losers. I'd rather everyone wins with creative solutions that
3. Time. If there is a vote, only the people who were active on the site during that time have a voice. Past editors and future contributors are left out of the conversation. With an open process, new information or ideas can change the way things work.
4. It changes the point of decision-making from what is the best thing for Wikitravel to what do people want.
5. It makes us take ourselves too seriously. I like to think of wiki discussions as an editorial meeting at a major newspaper or publishing house (with a lot of editors, but still). Voting makes things more like civic life, with parliamentary elections and referendums and such.

I think non-binding surveys can be a useful way to gauge opinions on a subject, but they shouldn't be the final say, but they help focus the discussion. --Evan 10:00, 9 Lug 2006 (EDT)