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Motions

The Rambling Man

User:The Rambling Man, a former bureaucrat, voluntarily resigned his bureaucrat status on May 14, 2009. At that time, The Rambling Man was a named party in an arbitration case then under consideration by this committee, Misplaced Pages:Requests for arbitration/Date delinking. The issues in the case did not relate to The Rambling Man's use of bureaucrat or administrator tools, nor did they fundamentally reflect adversely on his suitability to serve the community as a functionary. In the final decision, The Rambling Man was "admonished for not pursuing appropriate dispute resolution methods," by the narrowest possible vote of the arbitrators.

On August 12, 2009, The Rambling Man requested on the Bureaucrats' Noticeboard that his bureaucrat access be restored. Another bureaucrat granted this request, based on the general principle that a user who voluntarily resigns privileges such as adminship or bureaucratship may have such privileges restored on request. However, it was noted in subsequent discussion on WP:BN that where a user resigns while an arbitration case is pending against him, he could be deemed to have resigned "under controversial circumstances", thereby precluding automatic restoration of privileges without a new RfB, unless the Arbitration Committee decides otherwise. (See the discussion on WP:BN for references to prior Arbitration Committee decisions on this issue, and the reasons for them.}

Based on my familiarity with the Date delinking dispute from having served as an arbitrator in that case, I believe there is no possibility that The Rambling Man's bureaucrat privileges would have been affected in the decision of that case had he not resigned. I am not aware of any arbitrator holding a contrary opinion. Therefore, in my view, The Rambling Man should be allowed to regain bureaucratship upon request, without being required to undergo a new RfB. For the avoidance of doubt on this score, as well as to address concerns that have been expressed in the noticeboard discussion to the effect that our policies and procedures in this area may in some circumstances be unfair or unclear, I offer a motion.

Motion

The Arbitration Committee:

(1) Finds that the circumstances of The Rambling Man's resignation during the Date delinking case do not preclude his restoration to Bureaucrat status by request, in the discretion of the Bureaucrats, and that a new Request for bureaucratship is not required.

(2) Encourages any users concerned that the policies and procedures governing restoration of administrator and bureaucrat privileges following a resignation may be unfair or unclear to convene a community discussion on an appropriate policy page and to seek to develop a community-written policy on these matters.

Because there are 13 active arbitrators, a majority is 7.

Support:

1. Proposed. Newyorkbrad (talk) 01:14, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Oppose:

Abstain:

Recuse:

There are currently claims that I "worked behind the scenes with TRM to obtain the latter's informal and secret agreement to cease the problematic behaviors". These claims are not factual, but I don't have time right now to address them, so I will recuse. John Vandenberg 01:22, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

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