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 the content of 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 the 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
- BulbaBot: 12
- Pie: 9 (support)
- TTEchidna: 7 (support)
- Fabu-Vinny: 5
- Zhen Lin: 5
- PAK Man: 4 (support)
- Zeta: 4
- Taylor: 3
- Pokencyclopedia: 3
- Zurqoxn: 3
- Woopert: 3
- Argy: 2
- Meowth346: 2
- User142: 2
- ElectAbuzzzz: 1 (support)
- Jshadias: 1
- Urutapu: 1
- Siegfried: 1 (support)
- Ketsuban: 1
- Evkl: 1
- Sunain: 1 (support)
The total weight of all other votes will be 30, provided at least 30 users not in the above list cast their votes; otherwise the votes will have weight 1.
Support
- Paperfairy ☆ ・ 02:36, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
- 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)
- Greengiant 01:51, 10 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)
