Wikipedia:Times that 300 or more Wikipedians supported something

This is a list of times when at least 300 Wikipedians (ideally excluding sock puppets) actually explicitly voted in support of something.

This is an extension of WP:100 and WP:200. The next step is at: Times that 1000 or more Wikipedians supported something.

December 2006 election

 * 1) Can't sleep, clown will eat me – 303 (not appointed, as 100 opposed)

December 2007 election

 * 1) Newyorkbrad – 552
 * 2) Raul654 – 317 (not appointed)
 * 3) Giano II – 312 (not appointed)

December 2008 election

 * 1) Casliber – 377
 * 2) Rlevse – 306
 * 3) Risker – 302

December 2009 election

 * 1) Kirill Lokshin – 507
 * 2) Coren – 444
 * 3) Mailer diablo – 365
 * 4) SirFozzie – 364
 * 5) Hersfold – 351
 * 6) Fritzpoll – 351
 * 7) Steve Smith – 338
 * 8) Shell Kinney – 309
 * 9) AGK – 308

December 2010 election

 * 1) Newyorkbrad – 591
 * 2) Casliber – 459
 * 3) SirFozzie – 455
 * 4) Iridescent – 425
 * 5) Elen of the Roads – 381
 * 6) Xeno – 385
 * 7) Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry – 320

December 2011 election

 * 1) Courcelles – 433
 * 2) Risker – 401
 * 3) Roger Davies – 374
 * 4) Kirill Lokshin – 372
 * 5) Herfold – 347
 * 6) AGK – 342
 * 7) Jclemens – 313
 * 8) SilkTork – 309

December 2012 election

 * 1) Newyorkbrad – 584
 * 2) NuclearWarfare – 454
 * 3) Worm That Turned – 446
 * 4) Elen of the Roads – 375
 * 5) Carcharoth – 361
 * 6) Timotheus Canens – 347
 * 7) Coren – 341
 * 8) Salvio giuliano – 302

December 2013 election

 * 1) 28bytes – 475 (resigned before appointment)
 * 2) GorillaWarfare – 458
 * 3) AGK – 415
 * 4) Roger Davies – 389
 * 5) Floquenbeam – 350
 * 6) Seraphimblade – 339
 * 7) Beeblebrox – 314

December 2014 election

 * 1) DGG – 359
 * 2) Dougweller – 345
 * 3) Courcelles – 327
 * 4) Salvio giuliano – 323

December 2015 election

 * All candidates that remained in the final election received more than 300 votes in support. Those elected were:
 * 1) Opabinia regalis 1,121
 * 2) Casliber 1,118
 * 3) Keilana 1,118
 * 4) GorillaWarfare 1,111
 * 5) Drmies 1,038
 * 6) Kirill Lokshin 965
 * 7) Gamaliel 902
 * 8) Callanecc 848
 * 9) Kelapstick 738

December 2016 election

 * All candidates that remained in the final election received more than 300 votes in support. Those elected were:
 * 1) Newyorkbrad 1,097
 * 2) DeltaQuad 987
 * 3) Doug Weller 961
 * 4) DGG 851
 * 5) Euryalus 819
 * 6) Ks0stm 720
 * 7) Mkdw 677

December 2017 election

 * All candidates that remained in the final election received more than 300 votes in support. Those elected were:
 * 1) KrakatoaKatie 1,072
 * 2) Callanecc 820
 * 3) Opabinia regalis 810
 * 4) Worm That Turned 751
 * 5) RickinBaltimore 639
 * 6) Premeditated Chaos 593
 * 7) BU Rob13 598
 * 8) Alex Shih 598

December 2018 election

 * All candidates that remained in the final election received more than 300 votes in support. Those elected were:
 * 1) Mkdw 763
 * 2) GorillaWarfare 1,064
 * 3) AGK 799
 * 4) SilkTork 733
 * 5) Joe Roe 803
 * 6) Courcelles 788

December 2019 election

 * All but one of the candidates that remained in the final election received more than 300 votes in support. Those elected were:
 * 1) Newyorkbrad 803
 * 2) Casliber 709
 * 3) Worm That Turned 729
 * 4) KrakatoaKatie 742
 * 5) Xeno 618
 * 6) SoWhy 547
 * 7) Beeblebrox 611
 * 8) David Fuchs 505
 * 9) Maxim 486
 * 10) DGG 599
 * 11) Bradv 506

December 2020 election

 * All of the candidates in the final election received more than 300 votes in support. Those elected were:
 * 1) Barkeep49 908
 * 2) L235 792
 * 3) Primefac 809
 * 4) Bradv 827
 * 5) Maxim 725
 * 6) CaptainEek 662
 * 7) BDD 594

December 2021 election

 * All of the candidates in the final election received more than 300 votes in support. Those elected were:
 * 1) Worm That Turned 906
 * 2) Opabinia regalis 794
 * 3) Wugapodes 679
 * 4) Enterprisey 658
 * 5) Donald Albury 610
 * 6) Izno 573
 * 7) Cabayi 554
 * 8) Beeblebrox 679

December 2022 election

 * All but one of the candidates that remained in the final election received more than 300 votes in support. Those elected were:
 * 1) Barkeep49 854
 * 2) CaptainEek 771
 * 3) GeneralNotability 822
 * 4) Guerillero 635
 * 5) L235 745
 * 6) Moneytrees 612
 * 7) Primefac 862
 * 8) SilkTork 735

Requests for adminship and Requests for bureaucratship
See Times that 300 Wikipedians supported an RFX

Pending Changes Straw Poll

 * 407 in favour of implementation in some form, and 217 opposed, with 44 other responses.

Attribution/Poll

 * 424 in support (354 opposed; 102 neutral)

Requests for comment/Granting bureaucrats the technical ability to remove the admin flag

 * 312 supported, 33 opposed.

Request for non-admin rollback poll 2

 * 304 supported, 151 opposed.

Straw poll on implementation of flagged revisions

 * 429 support enabling a trial of flagged revisions.

WikiProject Usability/Main Page

 * 687 supported changing the main page. 213 opposed it, making the Main Page change the first issue opposed by over 200 Wikipedians.

January 2012 SOPA discussion

 * More than 1,800 participated; consensus led to the decision for a 24-hour shutdown on January 18 in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act. Note that all three numbers decrease significantly if accounts created solely to participate in the discussion are excluded.
 * 591 supported making it a global blackout (vs. 479 for U.S.-only).
 * 763 supported a full blackout with no editing (vs. a "soft" blackout).

VisualEditor/Default State RFC

 * In a poll, which ran from 4 August 2013 until 2 September, on the presentation of the VisualEditor Wikipedia editing tool,
 * 472 people indicated support for making its use an opt-in choice during its beta software stage of development
 * 117 people indicated support for an opt-out choice
 * 257 people indicated support for not presenting the tool to anonymous users
 * 181 people indicated support for disabling VisualEditor on all existing accounts and requiring explicit re-opt-in
 * 168 people indicated support for displaying a warning about using beta software when pressing "edit".

New pages patrol/Coordination/2022 WMF letter

 * 444 supporters

Rollback of Vector 2022 to Vector 2010 Legacy

 * 355 people supported changing the default skin back to Vector 2010.
 * 226 people opposed

Board elections

 * 1) Pundit – 2,028
 * 2) Doc James – 1,857
 * 3) Denny – 1,628

Funds Dissemination Committee elections

 * 1) Laurentius – 536
 * 2) Wittylama – 365
 * 3) Aegis Maelstrom – 336
 * 4) Itzike – 309

FDC Ombudsperson elections

 * 1) Kirill Lokshin – 370
 * 2) NickK – 333

Petition to Jimbo

 * 323 supporting the Petition to Jimbo.

Letter to Wikimedia Foundation: Superprotect and Media Viewer

 * 973 people (as of December 2015) signed a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation in support of:
 * Removal of WP:Superprotect (A new level of page protection denying even Admins the ability to edit a page)
 * Allowing the Community to implement Consensus to set WP:Media Viewer to opt-in.

Requests for adminship on German Wikipedia

 * As of 2024, more than 25 RfA's on German Wikipedia received more than 300 supports, with 405 as the maximum number.
 * See also de:Benutzer:Geitost/Adminkandidaturrekorde