Wookieepedia's voting eligibility policy requires that site editors meet a minimum level of productivity in order to participate in votes affecting site policy. Users who do not meet the predetermined productivity level(s) will have their votes stricken from voting forums by the administration. Votes by any users who have fewer than 50 valid Main namespace edits (as defined below) will NOT be counted. A blocked user's votes do not count on any active voting forum for the entire duration of the block.
Votes affected
Consensus votes
The following voting forums run pursuant to Wookieepedia's Consensus policy:
Non-consensus votes
The following voting forums are governed by their respective voting procedures rather than Wookieepedia's Consensus policy (see individual pages for specific voting rules):
- Featured article nominations
- Good article nominations
- Comprehensive article nominations
- Requests for user rights
- Requests for removal of user rights
- Review board membership nominations
- Requests for removal of review board membership
- Social Media Team membership nominations
- Requests for removal of Social Media Team membership
Votes not affected
The following votes are not affected by the Wookieepedia voting policy:
- Wookieepedia's annual Star Wars Character of the Year contest
- Other "just for fun" votes
General rules
- Only registered Wookieepedia users are eligible to vote. Click here to sign up.
- Blocked users are ineligible from all active votes for the duration of the block. Users who become blocked will have their active votes stricken.
- Sockpuppet votes are permanently ineligible
- Users must contribute 50 Main namespace edits under their registered Wookieepedia account to become voting-eligible. Reverted and/or deleted edits do not count toward this total.
Additional provisions
- Users must have contributed at least 50 valid Main namespace edits within the previous 6 months prior to the start of Consensus votes (as defined above), requests for user rights/removal of user rights votes, or review board membership nominations to be eligible to vote on such forums. Userpage and talk page edits do not count toward this total. Users who reach this edit requirement after the start of a Consensus vote may become eligible to vote on that forum if the forum lasts longer than a period of one month.
- For Consensus votes intended to modify Wookieepedia policies in relation to the site's Discord server or Discussions forum, users may also vote if they have made at least 200 valid posts on the site's Discussions forum within the previous 6 months prior to the start of any such vote. Users who reach this post requirement after the start of such a Consensus vote may become eligible to vote on that forum if the forum lasts longer than a period of one month. Deleted posts do not count towards this total. Discussions moderators may include their individual moderator action counts from the last 3 months (visible to them and administrators through Special:Insights) as part of their total post count.
- Users returning from a block of one month or longer are not immediately eligible to vote on Consensus votes (as defined above), requests for user rights/removal of user rights votes, review board membership/removal of review board membership nominations, or social media team/removal of social media team nominations. They regain their voting eligibility after two weeks from the expiration of their block.
Productivity requirement
Regardless of the overall total number of edits, a user's combined total of content namespace, Wookieepedia:, and MediaWiki: edits must be at least double the combined total of Forum:, User:, and User_talk: namespace edits in order to vote on any of the aforementioned forums. This works in conjunction with all aforementioned provisions required to vote but does not apply to "fun" votes, such as Star Wars Character of the Year.