Talk:Online petition

Example needed?
"For example, one could make a legitimate internet petition on having Jack Thompson's license to practice law in Florida to be pulled because his actions against the video game community are unethical and don't serve the written laws of the land nor the public good. Likewise, someone else could easily make a frivolous petition to have Jack Thompson's citizenship status in the USA to be revoked, and have him deported to Russia (which would be technically and legally impossible)."

Is this sort of example really appropriate? In fact, is any example needed at all? A "frivolous or impossible" petition seems to be a fairly straightforward concept, this strikes me as particularly non-encyclopedic. Matt 21:24, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

Petition site spam?
Recently I've noticed frequent mentions of online petitions in articles regarding entertainment topics, particularly video games and films. Often they point to sites such as Petition Online. I wonder about the relevance of these mentions to their individual topics, and wonder if it isn't in fact a form of spam from these petition sites. --Boradis 22:00, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

something simmilar happend on the kya dark lineage article i put a kya dark lineage petition in the external links and someone took it off saying it was spam..hotspot


 * IMHO, the petitions are generally spam unless they have received significant coverage in mainstream media. So I generally remove them on the spot. Veinor (ヴエノル(talk)) 20:35, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

where does it say they are generally spam?hotspot


 * They are generally posted to draw attention to a web site, which makes them spam. Also, links to petitions usually fail the External links guidelines:
 * "Adding external links can be a service to our readers, but they should be kept to a minimum of those that are meritable, accessible and appropriate to the article."
 * &#x2023;tregoweth (talk) 22:44, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

We could solve the problem for most of the petitions being hosted at Wikipedia by instead hosting them with my proposal for a sister Wikimedia project, called Wikipetitions. It's still in the prototype stages and needs developers very badly.

Anyone willing to help? Link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipetitions Joseph D. Smith 08:33, 9 July 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kyjds (talk • contribs)

Success Stories
This article could use references to specific examples of where these petitions have worked. I assume there must have been some somewhere. Maybe saving a TV show or something?--Twintone 15:48, 27 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I think the point is that they almost never do anything. They are blacklisted by wikipedia.

References to online petition success stories. There is a lot of examples on the following page, some of them are quite major too, it's surprising really... Success stories

"They are blacklisted by wikipedia." I don't understand this comment. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.11.162.168 (talk) 18:10, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Like a million years late but I don't understand that statement either. Why would they be blacklisted? --151.33.218.33 (talk) 13:23, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Why these four links are blocked?
iPetitions,, Care2 Petition, GoPetition & petitions@whitehouse.gov Ph.eyes (talk) 03:42, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Gopetition via teen block mobs
Why do they are store names in fake blogs, archives, outdated or sensitive contents for years asking the credit card where is the internet security then?. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 8.22.205.79 (talk) 15:03, 8 September 2013 (UTC)

How?
How do i make a company DEFITENLY take action from a petition??? Just want to make sure that my petition works if it gets the sigs needed. Wintermelon43 (talk) 21:25, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

cause and effect?
The note now says, in the first section, "Recently, several petitions on Change.org have been attributed to the reversal of a United Airlines Dog Policy."

Should this read 'Recently, several petitions on Change.org have been credited for the reversal ...', or 'the [recent] reversal of a United Airlines dog policy has been attributed to several petitions...'?

The way it reads now, the petitions arose because of the change. I think it wants to say that United Airlines changed its dog policy because of the petitions. Johndgregory (talk) 22:51, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Comparison table online petition platforms
Dear all,

What is your opinion on adding a comparison table of the major online petition platforms?

Example criteria could be: Domain of work, source of funding, member size, geographical scope of operation

Orschiro (talk) 20:04, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me. Thanks! Daniel.Cardenas (talk) 00:58, 5 July 2015 (UTC)