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2008 Arbitration Committee Election status

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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.", jdforrester@gmail.com)
  2. YellowMonkey (talk · contribs · email)
  3. Charles Matthews (talk · contribs · email) (charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com)
  4. Morven (talk · contribs · email) (Matthew Brown, morven@gmail.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

The agreed process being used this year is based around the following six points.

  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. Individual questions can be asked of each candidate between 10 November 2008 and 1 December 2008. They can be asked on his or her "/Questions for the candidate" subpage, reachable through the respective candidate statement. (Please do not repeat questions that have already been generally asked.)
  5. Voting will begin on 1 December 2008 and will end on 14 December 2008.
  6. The results will be announced on this page—and on a number of other mediums, in all likelihood—on or after 16 December 2008, and hopefully no later than the 20 December 2008.

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