Forum:Suggestion: Discontinue the Voting template

To me, the voting template is something that is overused and ill-suited to the daily operation of the wiki, yet it is something that we like to put up in everything that resembles a vote. Currently, we're using the template for RfAs, AfDs, UotMs, War Room proposals, policy drafts and more. I believe that the Voting template is unnecessary for the following reasons:
 * Decisions, for the most part, are made based on the content of discussions rather than the number of votes.
 * Many users fail to add their vote to the template tally, resulting in other editors having to fix the numbers and do recounts.
 * The current number of votes doesn't really matter; all that counts is the final result of the discussion, so having a tally that is updated with every comment is meaningless.
 * It leads users to become over-reliant on using raw numbers to argue in favour or against proposals and nominations.
 * Votes rarely go over 15, and I'm very certain that most of us can visually count that number without the need of a misleading template.

Essentially, the only people who would need to tally the votes are the admins who close the discussions and processes, and even they would probably only be looking at the content of the debate rather than the number of people for or against. --Scottie theNerd 10:22, May 9, 2010 (UTC)