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• WP:ACE2008

The Elections to the English Misplaced Pages's Arbitration Committee will commence on 10 November 2008 (candidate statements opening); voting will open on 1 December 2008. The newly elected Arbitrators will join both Trance Beta and Gamma. Voting will run for two weeks (exactly fourteen days), and the results will be determined and announced by Jimbo Wales. Nominations shall be accepted from 10 November 2008 – 24 November 2008. Once nominations are open, Users may declare their candidacy by submitting a candidate statement at /Candidate statements.

Open Seats

This year's Election will fill the following outgoing Arbitrators' seats:

1. Jdforrester (talk · contribs · email) (James Forrester aka "James F.", jdforrestergmail.com)
2. YellowMonkey (talk · contribs · email)
3. Charles Matthews (talk · contribs · email) (charles.r.matthewsntlworld.com)
4. Morven (talk · contribs · email) (Matthew Brown, morvengmail.com)
5. Paul August (talk · contribs · email)
6. UninvitedCompany (talk · contribs · email)
7. Jpgordon (talk · contribs · email)

There are therefore a total of seven open seats: five in Tranche Beta and two in Tranche Gamma. (The term extension for Thebainer fills the third vacancy in Tranche Gamma, which would have been the eighth open seat overall.) Assuming the number of arbitrators and tranche structure is left unchanged, the top five appointees will receive full three-year appointments to Tranche Beta (expiring December 31, 2011), and the next two appointees will receive one-year unexpired terms in Tranche Gamma (expiring December 31, 2009).

1. Thebainer's seat was originally supposed to expire this year. However, Jimbo Wales moved Thebainer to Paul's seat, effective January 2009; therefore, Thebainer's will sit for 1 more year (Paul retired just over 1yr before he was due to end his Committee duty), and his previous seat will now be filled in this election—that seat having expired this year, and therefore giving the person appointed to it a full 3yr term.
2. UninvitedCompany stepped down 1 year before his seat originally would expire (statement). One candidate from this year's Election will fill this seat, and therefore hold a position on the Committee for one year—until UninvitedCompany's seat would usually expire.
3. Jpgordon is stepping down 1 year early (statement). One candidate from this year's Election will fill this seat, and therefore hold a position on the Committee for one year—until Jpgordon's seat would usually expire.

Process

1. The Election opens formally on 10 November 2008. On this day, candidates will be able to submit their candidate statements. Also, general questions (questions that are submitted once on a single page, and thereafter answered by ever candidate in the election) will be accepted on this day.
2. Candidate statements will be accepted 10 November 2008 through 24 November 2008.
3. General questions will be accepted from 10 November 2008 through 17 November 2008.
4. Voting will begin on 1 December 2008 and will end on 14 December 2008.

See also

• Arbitration Committee Elections December 2007
• Misplaced Pages:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee/Summary
• User:MBisanz/ACE2008 for a voter guide; this utility is unofficial and, to some degree, speculative.

• Misplaced Pages Arbitration Committee
• Misplaced Pages Arbitration Committee Elections 2008