This is a parent task for the work involved with creating a new tool/abstraction for supporting voting-style discussions on wikitext talk pages.
The work involved to implement the above could include:
- Extending the [Reply Tool](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/replying)
- Introducing new wikitext so the software can know/detect when and where a vote is taking place
-- //See T252708#6149739//
=== Use cases
//The below is a living list of use cases for the voting tool this task is "asking" for.//
- ja.wiki's deletion discussions.
-- //Guideline: https://w.wiki/gqb; discussion example: https://w.wiki/gqa. //
- en.wiki's Articles for Deletion discussions.
-- //Guideline: [wp:AfD#How to contribute](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion#How_to_contribute); discussion example: https://w.wiki/gqd. //
- zh.wiki's deletion discussions.
-- //Guideline: https://w.wiki/gqe; discussion example: https://w.wiki/gqf. //
=== Considerations
- In deletion discussions at en.wiki, comments are //expected// within votes.
-- [Michel Ney](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:%E3%83%8D%E3%82%A4) noted this in [Topic:Vu8z37woqb5eit3e](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Vu8z37woqb5eit3e) and the AfD guidelines describe this in [Wikipedia:Articles for deletion#How to contribute](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion#How_to_contribute): //"If you want to expand on your own comments, add further text to your existing comments in preference to creating a new section. You can start a new paragraph indented the same as your bulleted paragraph by starting a line with a colon (:)."//