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It is unclear to me whether I should:
Advice?
Strongly related: Should the community wiki police be shut down? (response from management)
The question you should ask yourself is WHY do you think a question should be community wiki?
Almost always the answer is 1.
But ... the system is inherently unfair, easy and soft answers get tons of rep. Subjective is the most lucrative tag. Very complicated questions and answers often get a very small number of votes.
My recommendation would be to move over to another question OR flag for moderator attention. Don't look for fairness in this system, look for utility.
The trouble with leaving a comment is that you have to remember to delete it and its very easy to sound adversarial. Going harsher than that and editing with the intention of making something wiki is considered abuse.
Options #1 or 4 would be my recommendation. It lets the poster (#1) or the mods (#4) know that it should be wikified.
I would strongly recommend not doing options #2 or 3 (CW tag or editing the post). Adding a CW tag is like adding a belongs-on tag -- it's considered bad editing practice. Personally, I believe #3 is also bad editing practice -- among other things, the OP doesn't necessarily get notified of his post being edited (I don't think?), but he/she will be notified of the comment being added.
I'd go with #1.
Number 2 does nothing to describe the content of the question, which is what tags are suppose to be for.
Number 3 is basically a more forceful version of #1, which many users likely won't appreciate.
Number 4 is only good for really clear cut CW questions. If a moderator doesn't agree with you then it won't help. Just say it should be CW and see if other users or the OP agree with you.
Number 5 is only good if you don't care.
Just be warned if you do this often others will accuse you of being the CW police.
It's usually based on how obviously CW it should be.
If its your own question and you're not sure. Then add a question to see if people think it should be a CW. Usually if you're not sure, just ask around. You can always change it into a CW. But not back.
After more research, according to Should the community wiki police be shut down?, Jeff Atwood says, "If you think something should be community wiki then flag it for mod attention with a comment to that effect."
So #4 it is.
I mark comments like "should be community wiki" as noise.
There's a management response somewhere that this is OK.
Add a comment and downvote it until it is made CW ( that's what other have made to me in the past and it works!! )
If it is not worth the -1 rep for downvoting it, why should you care if is CW or not.
If it is worth the -1 dv, then other will follow you example and at the count of -4 or -5 it will be made cw.
I have never been too happy with the "made it cw" comment. If a question is meant to be cw, one of these must take place:
The system is not designed to make a post cw by adding comments.
Still if you don't like the rep-surf, downvote it. That's what dv are for, to show you don't find it useful.
