Wikipedia:Attribution/Poll/Questions
Note: This list of suggestion questions is not complete.
Note
This is not a poll; these are some of the questions considered in the making of Wikipedia:Attribution/Poll. All of them are questions somebody wanted to know the answer to; many of them were objected to as biased by somebody else. If they inspire your comments on the poll/discussion, they have at least served some purpose.
Do you support replacing Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:No original research with a single policy?
If there is a merge, are Wikipedia:Attribution (and its FAQ proposed as a guideline) adequate replacements of Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:No original research, and perhaps Wikipedia:Reliable sources.
Yes, it is good enough.
No, it requires significant changes.
If these policies aren't replaced, should Wikipedia:Attribution be kept as official policy:
Yes, it should be kept as official policy together with the current ones.
Yes, it should be kept as official policy, and the others should be explanations of it.
No, it should be made historical.
No, but it could serve as a summary of current policies.
Do you support Wikipedia:Attribution?
[i.e., Do you believe it can be useful in some form?]
If the pages are merged should they include:
[Vote in the appropriate section, "yes" or "no".
Do you support the merger behind Wikipedia:Attribution?
Which of the following do you support?
[You can vote any of the options, or vote 1st option, 2nd option and so forth]
In the alternatives given below, the original pages means: those policy or guideline pages that, in accordance with consensus established in response to question 2, should be merged into Wikipedia:Attribution. WP:ATT is not everywhere verbally identical with its sources. Its supporters assert it makes no changes in policy, but is better phrased.
A. The original pages become inactive. Wikipedia:Attribution serves as a unified policy on their subjects.
B. Wikipedia:Attribution remains as the definitive policy, but the original pages remain active to describe the concepts in greater detail.
C. The original pages serve as the definitive policies (or guideline in the case of WP:RS), but Wikipedia:Attribution remains active as a condensed summary.
D. Wikipedia:Attribution becomes inactive. (Parts of it that reflect consensus are integrated into the original pages.)
Wikipedia:Attribution proposes that the current Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:No original research policy with the Wikipedia:Reliable sources guideline be merged into a single policy page. Do you:
[You can vote any of the options, or vote 1st option, 2nd option and so forth]