Quickpolls were a trial of a system for making fast decisions about problematic users. They consisted of polls among Wikipedia regulars on issues that...

page describes the policies and rules for using the Wikipedia:Quickpolls page. Quickpolls can be used for four types of cases: someone violates the three...

respond to your quickpoll, because you are not allowed to start this quickpoll. MY comment was a respond to Silsor's quickpoll, and your quickpoll text was not...

Shortcut WP:BBQWP:BBQ Quickpolls were a fast, easy way to settle disputes without the lengthy intervention of the Arbitration Committee. I, for one, enjoyed...

New behaviour is an edit war to remove content from Quickpolls following Wik's creation of a quickpoll regarding user:Jor, in response to 19 consecutive...

bring back quickpolls, an experiment started in March 2004 to provide relatively swift action for violations of certain policies. Quickpolls allowed people...

(though I proposed adding it :) Ah, here 'tis buried: Wikipedia talk:Quickpolls/Archive1#Change username. Dori | Talk 15:09, Apr 9, 2004 (UTC) This is...

discussed at Quickpolls.) 02:54, Apr 12, 2004 Bcorr blocked "200.83.183.0/24" with an expiry time of 4 hours (repeated reversion of Wikipedia:Quickpolls) 02:53...

with Fred---quickpolls should've been used instead. This probably isn't the appropriate place to put this but the problem with using Quickpolls was that...

generated little interest or discussion Wikipedia:Quickpolls – during its short run in 2004, quickpolls were used to address admin disputes. Many of these...

after being warned 3 times by 2 users) The relevant quickpoll ban was on 31st Mar. The quickpoll ban on 21st Apr appears to have been aborted as the relevant...

myself. Meelar 01:58, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC) Despite some reservations about Quickpoll votes, he deserves it. GrazingshipIV 05:55, Mar 28, 2004 (UTC) +sj+ 15:12...

third, that after a period of discussion on the boards there should be a quickpoll vote on each; and fourth, that proposals presented to the board might...

28, Levzur was subjected to a 24-hour ban agreed through a quickpoll (Wikipedia:Quickpolls/Archive#Levzur) for violating the reversion policy. A few editors...

illegal on Wikipedia. The decision for blocking was done without any quickpoll. Lir was not banned at that time. Yes et al later were said to be Michael...

get some assistance and be compatable with policy, w/o trying to push a quickpoll (which I think may be the real soloution). He has exceeded the 3 revert...

bad as Wik, if not worse. And what about X? Cantus was temp-banned by quickpoll, and given an additional one day ban by the committee for evading that...

characters. This was available on non-English versions for a while. Wikipedia:Quickpolls came and went. Wikipedia:Requests for adminship and Wikipedia:Criteria...

Hcheney blocked Lir, he proceeded to remove Lir's vote from Wikipedia:Quickpolls Blocking policy #Unpopular opinions #Unblocking Banning policy Blocks...

conduct used to be subject to polling in the past, via a system called Quickpolls, but this has been deprecated years ago because it generated more heat...

Delete Vogel? -- Cyrius|&#9998 02:55, Apr 6, 2004 (UTC) See Wikipedia talk:Quickpolls for discussion of the 3-revert rule and anons - David Gerard 07:32, Apr...

(UTC)" Regarding Paul's fondness for reversion wars: check Wikipedia talk:Quickpolls for advice on dealing with anon users who grossly violate the 3 reversions...

bring back quickpolls, an experiment started in March 2004 to provide relatively swift action for violations of certain policies. Quickpolls allowed people...

illegal on Wikipedia. The decision for blocking was done without any quickpoll. Lir was not banned at that time. Yes et al later were said to be Michael...

of banned user:142. Then, a month later, a user takes one of them to Quickpolls over the revert war. User:Arminius left the Template:test message on the...

conduct used to be subject to polling in the past, via a system called Quickpolls. This procedure was abandoned years ago because it generated more heat...

conduct (keep an eye on reversions in particular) and not unless either a quickpoll decides that he should receive a temporary ban, or the arbitration committee...

blocked by Morwen for what I would call obvious trolling. I had thought the Quickpoll system was intended to solve these problem, but it was hijacked as an...

apologies to you. Ilyanep 17:40, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC) I guess that I meant the quickpolls. I saw that you crossed out your comments there. I'll do the same. 172...

that these paragraphs should not be included have been willing to have quickpolls on their relevance. However, the anonymous editors have altered the polls...

Apr 2004 (UTC) Zhen Lin 16:52, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC) (Consider supplanting quickpolls with this, or complementing with) Mos def. blankfaze | •­• 16:07, 1 Jun...

behaviour was disruptive to the purpose of building an encyclopedia. The quickpoll policy does not cover this so I see no solution other than arbitration...

2006 (UTC) Renventing quickpolls strikes me as a bad idea.Geni 04:45, 7 February 2006 (UTC) As with Geni, the return of quickpolls would very much concern...

already. andy 22:06, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC) Oppose. Let's have a quickpoll on giving quickpolls a 24 hour time out! 172 22:11, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC) Oppose (although...

were not weighed at Quickpolls, unlike Request for Adminship. --H. CHENEY 19:35, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC) If this was a valid quickpoll, that might be important...

(WP:QA) – Quality articles QD (WP:QD) – Quick directory QP (WP:QP) – Quickpolls QS (WP:QS) – Verifiability#Questionable sources Back to contents R (WP:R)...

anonymous editor thinks that I should have found the incident of altering the quickpoll sooner. I wish that I had. Perhaps I should have submitted a second RfC...

bad users. IMO this needs to be done by triads of admins and/or through quickpolls. Any action like that would then have to be reviewed by the AC, who could...

forgetting to delete it yourself bothers me more than the joke itself (though, quickpoll, do people laugh at these jokes?). One can forget stuff, sure, but, how...

never answered. Has anyone ever heard of "trial by peers"? Sure, we tried quickpolls. Most people didn't like them. Am I the only one who sees this a solid...

(blocked by quickpoll: [[Wikipedia:Quickpolls]]) 05:39, 23 Mar 2004 Kingturtle blocked "GrazingshipIV" with an expiry time of 24 hours (See Quickpoll. 8 support...

How can we do that? Don't we need arbitration? Yes, I'm a supporter of quickpolls, but not for indefinite blocks. Everyking 17:42, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC) Block...

(UTC) Also, re this supposed previous ban for 3RR violation: During the quickpolls process which once existed (where rapid blocking decisions were made by...

user supports keeping Finger fucking), has also attempted to create a Quickpoll, and has left a message on my talk page. I appreciate his zeal, but I'm...

This unfortunately, degenerated into an edit war, later resolved with a quickpoll...I reverted his changes with an explanation in Talk, he reverted mine...

[2] and parthenogenesis [3] Quickpolls: A quickpoll takes place regarding an edit war at Saddam Hussein. The quickpolls process itself comes up for a...

fading hope of anything ever getting better, not the rejected Wikipedia:Quickpolls that these kinds of requests quite distinctly are. -Splash - tk 00:21...

"Community consensus that the user should be banned (for example, the quickpoll process briefly used in the first half of 2004)". There appears to be...

Rcpaterson comment by Rcpaterson Sanger 2004, Kuro5hin.org Wikipedia:Quickpolls User:LinaMishima/Experts Problem Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism...

--MONGO 11:42, 21 December 2006 (UTC) You may wish to view my informal quickpoll on this user User:Hipocrite/Cplot. An RFC on MONGO will not help Cplot...

agreement behind them. (For this reason, I remain a big proponent of quickpolls.) Everyking 6 July 2005 12:16 (UTC) Actually, given your thoughtfulness...

war, a particular spurious accusation, etc.) Let's not turn AN into a Quickpoll-style witch burning. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 01:24, 26...

than the second coming of Quickpolls. Mackensen (talk) 19:16, 22 April 2007 (UTC) (outdent) It seems different from quickpolls. The consensus gathered there...

Everyking 08:48, 1 July 2005 (UTC) Isn't that precisely what the old Quickpolls mechanism did? As a side point, ArbCom members are elected by community...

wouldn't impose bans of longer than say 30 days). That, or bring back quickpolls… --fvw* 12:38, 2005 Jan 21 (UTC) I've just blocked User:FVW, another incarnation...

summarizing all things back-end? Here is a sample entry for quickpoll: Quickpoll: Quickpolls were a process used in early 2004. They were designed as a...

I'd say keep (plus "redirects are cheap")... or redirect to Wikipedia:Quickpolls (since that's basically what it really has become). --Ali'i 18:07, 4 October...

of banned user:142. Then, a month later, a user takes one of them to Quickpolls over the revert war. User:Arminius left the {{test}} message on the anonymous...

a Coordinator. See: Wikipedia:AMA Coordinator Election. Quickpolls - The Wikipedia:Quickpolls process is implemented for the first time after an edit...

Meta:Thumbnailed images - A poll on thumbnail formatting takes place. Wikipedia:Quickpolls - A proposed method of quickly dealing with problem users is discussed...

any admin should be able to take care of it. It is much like Wikipedia:Quickpolls as I have heard of it. Kind of the same way the "Community sanction board"...

opposition. So, we have tried a) a couple of times (the sanctions noticeboard, quickpolls, discussion on the administrator's boards). These haven't worked out spectacularly...

do something that is evil. imho. HighInBC 15:23, 18 October 2006 (UTC) Quickpolls were widely considered to be a mess - this poll should probably be stopped...

the board in regards to what has become a reinstatement of Wikipedia:Quickpolls among other issues.—Ryūlóng (竜龍) 08:33, 3 May 2007 (UTC) Dear Administrator...

dispute with an established editor). This almost sounds like the return of Quickpolls, but I'm certainly game for an attempt. Mackensen (talk) 18:15, 24 January...

27 May 2010 (UTC) Martinp, you may want to have a look at Wikipedia:Quickpolls, which had its test period before you came aboard. It was something similar...

majority required for approval, voters must have minimum of 500 edits. Quickpolls - polls on Anthony DiPierro, Wik, Jor, and reddi fail to achieve the 80%...

complex. We already had a trial period with the less complicated format of quickpolls, and that failed, so I see no reason to support a trial period here. Martin...

A high-tech lynching. Speedy Delete #G4 Recreated material: Wikipedia:Quickpolls. But seriously, it is a travesty and needs to be dissolved back into ANI...

May 2004 (UTC) Oppose: Other: We find that Cantus attempted to evade a quickpoll ban by creating multiple sock puppet accounts, and to harass Wik by means...

12:54, 9 July 2016 (UTC) Gladly. First of all, they weren't. Wikipedia:Quickpolls was, and so was the short-lived Community sanctions process, but RFC/U...

(UTC) Oppose. I've only had one encounter with 172, back in the days of Quickpolls. Admittedly, that was a contentious page; but I don't recall anyone more...

commons appeared more like a "community mediation"/discussion than a "quickpoll ban board". So like I said, this would give a venue, without the "tone"...

be "fair." We had such problems when we were enforcing the 3RR rule by Quickpoll, and we'll have them again if we adopt this. Isomorphic 18:59, 15 Nov...

knowledge it never became policy until about a year ago. There was the quickpolls phase before that, and I can tell you what happened to me there, which...

issues for the community but rather a brand new version of Wikipedia:Quickpolls... (Ryulong) ... There is no way to truly know if a user is community...

VeryVerily is the one the Wikipedia community chose to temp ban after a Quickpoll, yet he throws mud at me, goes through my (and many other peoples) edit...

not what is popular at the moment is important. The failed Wikipedia:Quickpolls and Wikipedia:Community sanction noticeboard are good examples of reactionary...

issues for the community but rather a brand new version of Wikipedia:Quickpolls. Such examples of abuse of the board include the discussion of Eagle 101's...

good for many things. Judicial proceedings are not among them. Remember quickpolls. Snowspinner 01:23, Sep 1, 2004 (UTC) • Benc • 01:40, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)...

enforced against 172 while I was complying with it, and that was when we had quickpolls to enforce it! Gz's assessment of Nagaland seems sound; I don't know what...

appropriate level of reply, there were too few users involved to make a quickpoll viable, and I felt that all user-based negotiative efforts had been exhausted...

process; its closest forebear is probably the dramatically failed Wikipedia:Quickpolls. It's quite unpredictable how this will act in practice and the proponents...

don't think I am sexy and I am hot get a vote do they? Or is it just quickpolls that need voters to be three months old or more (I can't keep up with...

Talk:Ségolène_Royal Talk:Ted_Kennedy/Archive_5 Talk:Ted_Kennedy/Archive_Quickpoll Talk:Terri_Schiavo/Archive_23 Talk:Terri_Schiavo/Archive_4 Talk:The_Guardian...

has been wasted in vain pursuit of accord with Vogel. As I do not see quickpolls as an appropriate method of resolving what should be a simple matter of...

the suggestions have failed to gain consensus, and those tried, like quickpolls, and the old admin abuse page, were mostly useless as they attracted too...

proposal has a one week time period for on-board debates, and then a quickpoll vote. [15:13] <alex756> I had suggested that but no one started those...

though. That would be the best solution IMO. Do you think resurecting quickpolls for the purpose of getting that authority is a good idea? Theresa Knott...

I fight for my edits I get my back into my reverting I don’t need to quickpoll To prove I’m right I don’t need to be forgiven All right members. Let's...

Wikipedia:Administrators. Dysprosia 08:37, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC) As I explained on Wikipedia:Quickpolls, I permanently blocked User:Bird for using lists of proxies to avoid blocks...

request comments on usernames… however, this page should not devolve into Quickpolls. I've commented further on my qualms with the current page elsewhere,...

thank goodness. What remains is to figure out how to minimize trouble; quickpolls are the latest experiment. I'm not good at welcoming newbies or distinguishing...

accused one of those two Wikipedians of being on the Kennedy payroll. Two quickpolls were attempted to determine consensus. Agiantman substantively altered...

end up doubled or tripled. (Check the histories of, for example, RFA, Quickpolls, and Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.) Is there a software glitch somewhere, or...

third, that after a period of discussion on the boards there should be a quickpoll vote on each; and fourth, that proposals presented to the board might...

Delete Vogel? -- Cyrius|&#9998 02:55, Apr 6, 2004 (UTC) See Wikipedia talk:Quickpolls for discussion of the 3-revert rule and anons - David Gerard 07:32, Apr...

process; ironically you have opposed such a process at Wikipedia talk:Quickpolls as currently one of about 4 individuals against 20 others, and have neither...

(UTC) Oppose. I've only had one encounter with 172, back in the days of Quickpolls. Admittedly, that was a contentious page; but I don't recall anyone more...

Catarcostica 15:30, 15 April 2007 (UTC) Please stop voting. When did quickpolls come back, and why are we engaging in a pile-on witchhunt with no substantive...

= IR (Talk • Contribs) 20:03, 1 May 2011 (UTC) Do you want Wikipedia:Quickpolls back? (It died before my time, but I still remember hearing it mentioned...

agreed policy for such a thing, whatever certain partisans have argued. Quickpolls, as I recall, never claimed to "ban" anybody. The whole idea behind a...

Tannin 13:10, 9 Apr 2004 (UTC) I unblocked - that's rationale for a quickpoll, not an instant blocking, IMO. I'd nominate myself, but I think I nominated...

part of the wikipedia dispute resolution process with the exception of quickpolls (I haven't been around quite that long) I've been involved with arbcom...

Snowspinner blocked him for 24 hours. There has been discussion of starting a quickpoll to block him, discussion of starting a Request for Arbitration, and the...

discussions: Wikipedia talk:Quickpolls#Review of quickpoll process Wikipedia:Bring back quickpolls Should we bring back quickpolls? Quickpolls were a trial of a...

part of the wikipedia dispute resolution process with the exception of quickpolls (I haven't been around quite that long) I've been involved with arbcom...

Comment by others: V4) In the past, Wikipedia employed a mechanism called "quickpolls" that allowed people to make a motion e.g. to block an editor, and have...

(UTC) Oppose. I've only had one encounter with 172, back in the days of Quickpolls. Admittedly, that was a contentious page; but I don't recall anyone more...

I was blocked by some sort of Wikipedia Ku Klux Klan (see (Wikipedia:Quickpolls#Gdansk), just for using a Wikipedia naming convention, I am sorry I cannot...

addition to that, such a process would quickly degenerate into the return of Quickpolls, which never were a good idea to begin with. Titoxd(?!? - cool stuff)...

2004 Tim Starling unprotected Wikipedia:Quickpolls 05:35, Mar 23, 2004 Tim Starling protected Wikipedia:Quickpolls 05:23, 23 Mar 2004 Seth Ilys unprotected...

democracy - and for that, you should count your lucky stars. If we did a quickpoll with only "topic ban MathSci" or "topic ban Captain Occam" as the only...

(talk) 20:44, 25 October 2005 (UTC) This is precisely the reason why Quickpolls were abandoned. Tar and feathers, anyone? Since nominations regularly...

This page is no longer "live". Please do not edit it further. Ongoing work is at Wikipedia:WikiProject countering systemic bias. -- Jmabel 21:02, Oct 4...

referenced in other media. On that actual issue, a more straightforward quickpoll was taken at: Talk:Jeffrey_Vernon_Merkey/Archive5#Fun_new_poll. In that...

We'll have a long argument about what to call the wall, a series of quickpolls to decide on who'll be shot and who'll do the shooting, and then the bullets...

Appropriately neutral. Observant. -SV This is precisely the reason why Quickpolls were abandoned. Tar and feathers, anyone? Since nominations regularly...

forgot the name. Can anyone help? -- Mgm|(talk) 10:23, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC) Quickpolls? BrokenSegue 23:59, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC) If you edited it, try "my contributions:...

"User:VeryVerily" with an expiry time of 24 hours (87.5% support for ban in quickpoll) 22:18, 11 Jun 2004 ChrisO blocked "213.157.202.0/24" with an expiry time...

(content was: 'delete}}') 07:40, 7 Nov 2004 RickK deleted Wikipedia talk:Quickpolls/archive (massive spamming) 07:38, 7 Nov 2004 RickK deleted WYSIWYG (album)...

page to deleted article) 03:50, 14 Apr 2004 Pakaran deleted "Wikipedia:Quickpolls/List of rfc" (Reference copy of deleted page which was just a file listing...

goals (but different implementation). There's information at Wikipedia:Quickpolls. I don't know if I think it's a good idea... but it's often useful to...

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