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2008 Arbitration Committee Election status
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The next elections to the English Misplaced Pages's Arbitration Committee will commence on 1 December 2008. These are the sixth such elections, and the newly elected members will join Tranche Beta. Voting will run for two weeks (exactly fourteen days), and the results will be determined and announced by Jimbo Wales. Nominations will 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.
Process
- Nominations for the Arbitration Committee elections 2008 will open at 00:00 (UTC) on 10 November 2008. Candidates must have 1000 edits to be eligible, and should self-nominate.
- Candidates must submit a candidate statement using the provided template, posting it on their own subpage at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2008/Candidate statements/YOUR USERNAME. The statement will also be transcluded to the top of the user's voting subpage at Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2008/Vote/YOUR USERNAME. The statement must be limited to 400 words or less; however, a link to a longer statement in the candidate's userspace may be given.
- Individual candidate pages are linked from Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2008/Candidate statements and voting pages onto Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2008/Vote. Remember, the statement must be 400 words or less.
- Nominations close at 23:59 (UTC) on 24 November 2008.
- Voting begins 00:00 1 December UTC at the Misplaced Pages:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2008/Vote/Username pages. There is only a space for support or oppose comments. Reasoning should be kept brief, although longer comments can be linked to on the talk page. Users can also expand on their comments on their own userspace.
- You must have a registered account with at least 150 mainspace edits before 1 November 2008 to vote. You may only vote once per candidate, and you may not vote for yourself. Votes from ineligible voters may be indented by anyone, but please don't bite, and do explain why their vote has been indented.
- Voting will end on 23:59 15 December UTC. Any votes cast after this time will be reverted and removed.
- If you wish to withdraw your candidacy, place archive templates on your voting page and move your section on the /Vote page to the #Withdrawn candidates section of the page.
Open Seats
- Per The ArbCom Page, the following Arbs' terms expire this year, all members of Tranche Beta;
- Jdforrester (talk · contribs · email) (James Forrester aka "James F.", jdforrester
gmail.com) - YellowMonkey (talk · contribs · email)
- Charles Matthews (talk · contribs · email) (charles.r.matthewsntlworld.com)
- Morven (talk · contribs · email) (Matthew Brown, morvengmail.com)
- Thebainer (talk · contribs · email) (Stephen Bain, stephen.baingmail.com) - reappointed by Jimbo for one year per and therefore moved to Trache Gamma.
- Jdforrester (talk · contribs · email) (James Forrester aka "James F.", jdforrester
- Further, three members of Tranche Gamma, whose terms were originally due to expire at the end of 2009, have resigned:
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).
Voting System
Discussion is taking place on the talk page concerning the choice of voting system to be used for these elections. Here are some links for further research;
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.