UDWiki:Administration/Bureaucrat Promotions

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This page is for the election of Bureaucrats.

Rules

Rules for starting an election.

1. When a Bureaucrat resigns, or loses his status due to demotion or inactivity an election is started immediately.
   • A Bureaucrat that hasn't made a single edit in one month is considered as inactive and forfeits his status as bureaucrat.
2. After 3 months with no elections on a bureaucrat position, an election is called for the bureaucrat position longest without an election.
3. If, for any reason, an individual Bureaucrat position hasn't faced an election after 12 months, then an election is called after that period.
4. The election ends after two weeks wiki time counting from the when the election is started.
5. The candidate with the most votes wins the election.
6. In the event of a tied vote the remaining bureaucrats will decide between the tied candidates.

Rules concerning candidates

1. All active users with the sysops status are automatically declared candidates for any vacant Bureaucrat positions.
   • Users with at least 12 edits in the 30 days before the election are considered "active" for purposes of the election.
2. The Bureaucrat whose position comes up for election if said election is started under rule 2 of Rules for starting an election is automatically declared a candidate.
3. A candidate can retract his own candidacy at any time.

Rules concerning voting.

1. All users have only one vote per bureaucrat position to be filled.
2. Users vote for a candidate by signing under the preferred candidates name.
3. Users may change their votes for a candidate as long as the election has not ended.
   • Multiple votes at the same time will be struck.
4. Sockpuppetry is considered vandalism.

Election Space

The next round of bureaucrat promotions is scheduled to start in January of 2009.

A Helpful Little Gnome has demoted himself in the fallout from the last sysop promotion, therefore one position is to be filled by one of the below.

The election will end at 11:30, 4 December.

The current time (depending on caching issues) is 20:33, 4 May.

Eligible Candidates

User:Boxy

1. all hail Boxy By far the best candidate. --Honestmistake 11:42, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
2. boxy über alles --Midianian ^{Big Brother Diary Room: [511,20]} 11:58, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

User:Karek

1. --DonTickles 12:44, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

User:Nubis

1. cuz evil is funner --WanYao 11:56, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

   all seriousness aside... ;P in spite of our differences, i trust nubis a lot more than a lot of other recent crats. etc... and, i feel like voting for someone different from the usual batch. --WanYao 11:58, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Ineligible Candidates

• Daranz
• Thari

Archived Promotions Rounds

• July '06 Round
• August '06 Round
• September '06 Round
• March '07 Round
• July '07 Round
• September '07 Round
• November '07 Round
• March '08 Round
• June '08 Round
• October '08 Round
• October '08 Round:Part 2