Template talk:BOTM/Voting rules

I changed the period where a book is not allowed to be nominated again from 2 months to 1 year. I think it would degrade the quality of the vote, if we would see the same book on the main page every 3 months. Part of the philosophy behind the "book of the month" is to present new or maybe yet unknown books to the community, and it would not be good to always have the same book in that place. What do you think?

Minimum number of edits?
Last month, it looked like a user regestered multiple accounts, which did nothing more than vote for the London book. I suggest that you have to have at least 100 edits in order to vote. Reub2000 14:35, 1 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * I think that if we have such condition at Collaboration of Month, we should introduce it here. BOTM is even more important, we shouldn't risk that sockpuppets will manipulate this vote. I suggest minimum of 20 edits - like at COTM. --Derbeth talk 11:15, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd go with 20 edits on the day the BOTM cycles, otherwise it would be fairly easy to create several accounts that correct 20 typos, then vote. Gentgeen 16:53, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
 * There have been a number of books, notably the Japanese and Bulgarian Wikibooks, that seem to have abused this recently (noted by the redshirt users doing the voting for those Wikibooks). At the same time, I don't want to discourage legitimate new users from voting as the BOTM is a good place to get your feet wet without having to deal with the greater political battles that happen on the VfD page or Staff Lounge, for example.  You can pad edits just as easily as you can do anything else, but that would also make sock puppets obvious and take more effort to create.  Too bad we don't have anybody with CheckUser privileges here at the moment.  Definitely add an extra line to the rules to prohibit sock puppets explicitly (the rationale for introducing this rule in the first place, I presume).  --Rob Horning 02:48, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I support both the explicit ban of sockpuppets from polls, and the requirement to have 20 edits before polls open for that month. --Kernigh 03:58, 19 January 2006 (UTC)


 * The default policy should have the previous edit requirement to be the same (0, 20, 100, whatever) for BOTM and COTM. Having different requirements should require specific reason, eg., there is more of a problem at one or the other.  I have been a bit curious about suspicious some of the redshirt voting in recent months&mdash;it seems that the minimum should be more than zero.  Let's try 20 for both since that is what is at COTM.  Further problems may require higher minimums.  Some possibly suspicious redshirt voting this month at COTM may suggest that 20 isn't enough.  But the place to start is raising the BOTM requirement to 20.  --JMRyan 04:22, 22 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I put in formal rules that reflect this general concensus. I would agree that 20 votes is not enough, but it at least is a place to start.  I also put in a warning that the number may be raised if low-quality books seem to be getting a lot of votes.  --Rob Horning 19:43, 24 January 2006 (UTC)