User blog comment:Acebatonfan/Proposal for Dealing with Notability Policy Exclusions/@comment-4812386-20150426041537

There already is a system like this in place, but it never gets used. Ideally, notability of a subject should always be determined through consensus. Since this is unfeasible, we have a number of quantitative criteria that allow a subject to bypass this. In all cases, however, consensus can override the criteria: if consensus is gathered that a subject that meets the criteria is not notable, the article must be deleted, and if consensus is gathered that a subject that does not meet the criteria is notable, it must be kept.

Falsifying poll results is easy and does not even require creating sockpuppet accounts, but I think the main problem with polls and all forms of voting for decision-taking on wikis is that it does not depend on discussion, and does not necessarily take into consideration all legitimate concerns editors may have. Those are some reasons decision-making on Wikipedia is based on consensus rather than majority vote, and I think it is sensible.

At the moment, consensus about a subject's notability can be established in the article's comments, in a forum post linked to the article, or anywhere else on the wiki.

I'm sorry for not reading and replying to this blog post sooner.