Bulbapedia:Advertising poll

Keeping Bulbagarden online costs a significant amount, and it is only by generous donations that we are able to foot the bill. We hope to decrease our reliance on charity by publishing advertisements on Bulbapedia, which is the single largest site on the server in traffic terms. Specifically, we are proposing the publication of Google AdSense advertisements in the site-wide notice area.

We have refrained from doing so in the past because people are not drawn to Bulbapedia for its community, as is the case with the Bulbagarden forums, but for its content. Bulbapedia is a Web 2.0 site, therefore its content is created by its users - and to that degree it is also owned by its users, as opposed to other reference sites like Veekun or Smogon, where content is created by the staff. To monetize user-created content can be considered unethical - as one cynic put it, "Web 2.0: you make all the content, we make all the money."

Therefore, we have decided to consult you, the creators of content, on this matter. Naturally, votes will be weighted to reflect the number of edits the voter has made. Please cast your vote by adding your signature (~~~~) to the end of the signature lists below. All registered users may vote once to:

• Support the publication of Google AdSense advertisements on Bulbapedia
• Reject the publication of Google AdSense advertisements on Bulbapedia
• Abstain

Users may change their vote at any time until this poll is closed.

Weightings

1. BulbaBot: 12
2. Pie: 9 (support)
3. TTEchidna: 7 (support)
4. Fabu-Vinny: 5
5. Zhen Lin: 5
6. PAK Man: 4 (support)
7. Zeta: 4
8. Taylor: 3
9. Pokencyclopedia: 3
10. Zurqoxn: 3 (support)
11. Woopert: 3 (abstain)
12. Argy: 2 (abstain)
13. Meowth346: 2
14. User142: 2
15. ElectAbuzzzz: 1 (support)
16. Jshadias: 1
17. Urutapu: 1
18. Siegfried: 1 (support)
19. Ketsuban: 1
20. Evkl: 1

All other votes will be weighted so that the total weight is 30, provided at least 30 users not in the above list cast their votes, i.e. if 60 users other than the ones above vote, then the weight on each of their votes will be 0.5; otherwise the votes will have weight 1.

Support

• nYoo 16:49, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• Siegfried 17:11, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• PAK Man ^Talk 17:16, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• TTEchidna 17:33, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• Crystallucario 12:49, 9-7-07
• Sketchies 19:16, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• Blastcage 19:46, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• ElectAbuzzzz 19:47, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• Pie ^~♪♫ 22:56, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• Pluvia 23:21, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• Zurqoxn 23:26, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• Sunain 01:30, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
• Greengiant 01:51, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
• Spikefish 03:58, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
• Llxwarbirdxll 04:22, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
• Paperfairy ☆ ・ 02:36, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
• Koki.The.Potato 04:39, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
• Kenji Girl 05:15, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
• -- Jioruji Derako.> 12:41, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
• DocSigma 12:56, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
• DragonFeather 15:31, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
• funderwood 9:18, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
• -PsychoYoshi 18:30, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
• Wynautluvr 13:43, 10 July 2007 (CDST)
• Drapion 19:35, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
• AJHayson 20:36, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
• Sabaku 02:54, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
• Carnivine 04:37, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
• Miss Kass 05:18, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
• Joey 07:09, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Reject

• Maxim 18:12, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• Empoleon ''Bono'' Bonaparte 20:50, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
• Toribird 18:06, 9 July 2007 (EST)
• Deadlymethane Deadlymethane 00:43, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
• ComputerfreakHR 13:10, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
• Kochdude388 16:45, 10 July 2007 (UTC) (see talk page)
• Sethimothy 09:04, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
• Theryguy512 09:39, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Abstain

• Woopert 03:25, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
• Argy 07:09, 10 July 2007 (UTC)