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. //
- en.wiki RfCs
-- See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)/Archive_2?dtdebug=2#Discussion_Tools_RFC_responses
- en.wikivoyage vote about Covid-19 banner
-- via @WhatamIdoing: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Talk:Main_Page?dtdebug=2#Discussion
- [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview Wikidata's property proposal discussions]
-- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Wl8zu55h7ocb0v4s
=== Approaches
//@Esanders to describe.//
=== 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 (:)."//
=== Open questions
- [ ] Is an approach that could cause the `[Add comment]` affordance (exact naming TBD) to appear in conversations/sections where it should not acceptable? //More context about this false positive case can be found in the comment Ed wrote in T259865#6655698.//
=== References
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#RfC:_Should_we_have_Support/Oppose/etc._survey_convenience_templates?
- //"I'd really wish for an easier, automatic voting infrastructure, be that for individual comments or for elections like RFAs (even though that's not part of talk pages per se). Beside the reasons said above it would also make counting votes easier overall I believe, making the process mostly (if not all) automatic without utilizing other tools whatsoever."// - @Klein writing on mediawiki.org: [Topic:Wijqgak8g0ndnic5](https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Topic:Wijqgak8g0ndnic5&topic_showPostId=wiuyol4b1oovjqvf#flow-post-wiuyol4b1oovjqvf).
- //"It would be convenient if there were thumbs up and thumbs down buttons next to the reply link. Clicking on them would allow you to select what type of support/oppose template you want to add (support, approve, etc.) and then it would add it."// via [User:Lectrician1](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Lectrician1) in [Topic:Wnvdt67jj8aib548](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Wnvdt67jj8aib548)
- [User:2d37](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:2d37) seeking to [use the Reply Tool in an RfD nomination at en.wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Talk_pages_project#c-2d37-2022-01-14T04:05:00.000Z-Reply_Tool_appears_to_use_wrong_list_type_after_bulleted_comments).
- [AddMe Gadget](https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/commtech/add-me) written by @MusikAnimal
- ["Replies are weird for me"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#c-Jalape%C3%B1o-20230621064500-Replies_are_weird_for_me) via [en:User:Jalapeño](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jalape%C3%B1o)
- //"There are certainly situations where it makes sense to reply (with :) in a !voting-style discussion, including to the OP. (It would be quite confusing if only the first reply button added a bullet at the end of the topic.) What we need instead in XfD, RfC, RM, etc. is a separate button at the bottom that opens a reply box specifically for adding a !vote. Template:Discussiontools-anchor exists as a hack but it obviously doesn't support bullets. (If it was to be implemented, how to realize paragraph breaks could be a challenge, as {{pb}} only works if set up on the wiki.) "// via @Nardog [writing at en.wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#c-Nardog-20230626194200-PPelberg_(WMF)-20230626193000)//