User:NJA/Cda draft

Certification

Discussion does not open until an Arbitration Committee clerk, two Bureaucrats, or an Arbitration Committee member certifies a nomination as valid. Nominations are not valid unless all of the following apply:

10 eligible editor signatures have been collected, or the Arbitration Committee has passed a motion.
If a community nomination, at least 24 hours has elapsed since the initiation of the nomination
A notice of the de-adminship request is placed on each of Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous), the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard, and the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard. (Anyone may post such a notice.)
A notice of the Community de-adminship request is placed on the nominated administrator's talk page.

The nominators

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When a nomination is made by 10 editors, those editors:

must be active editors on the English Wikipedia, with edits from the previous 6 weeks that are unrelated to the CDA nomination.
must have accounts at least 3 months old and with at least 500 edits.
must have signed the nomination within the 7 day period.

The following terms and restrictions also apply:

Editors who are subject to Arbitration enforcement editing restrictions, Arbitration Committee restrictions, or Community restrictions, including, but not limited to, topic bans, project bans, and paroles, must have permission from the group or persons empowered to lift those restrictions, such as the Arbitration Committee.

Editors under a block restriction cannot be a nominator, unless they were blocked by the administrator being reviewed and the nomination is materially related to that block. In this case, an uninvolved administrator, on request, shall unblock the editor for the sole purpose of participation in the CDA.

Nomination by editors of an administrator who is currently part of an active arbitration process must be done by permission of the Arbitration Committee.

Canvassing and discussion rules

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The signature-collecting phase

During the collection of the 10 signatures, no canvassing is allowed. Signatures can only be requested directly via the user's Talk page, and must include a valid reason why the person contacted might agree to the CDA.

During this phase, any nomination-related discussion between (1) those who have already signed, and (2) those involved in current discussion related to the 'before nomination' phase, can only be made on their talk pages. No other nomination-related discussion is allowed, except to the nominee, or to administrators when asking advice.

Signatures that are the result of direct canvassing will be struck out, unless the person signing is involved in current discussion related to the 'before nomination' phase. Canvassing abuse will be dealt with according to Wikipedia's canvassing rules.

The discussion and polling phase

After the 10 signatures have been accepted and the CDA process begins in earnest, all parties must fully adhere to Wikipedia's canvassing rules. However, parties to the CDA process may also contact other editors individually, to request specific input. Those names must be entered, leaving a signature, into the Contacted parties list on the CDA page.

Discussion and poll

Discussion and polling proceeds for at least 7 days after discussion opens, but may be summarily closed ahead of the deadline at the discretion of Bureaucrats or the Arbitration Committee.

Discussions are subject to the usual rules.

Community de-adminship discussions follow the normal Wikipedia talk page etiquette. All editors are reminded in particular that the Wikipedia:No personal attacks policy applies to all parts of a de-adminship request.

Extended discussion belongs on the discussion page, not in the poll.

Please discuss on the discussion page (the talk page of the CDA request). The main CDA page is for the nomination, the poll, and the closure. Any discussion on the main page that is not evaluating the level of community support for a given Administrator may be 'refactored' to the dicussion page.

To extended a comment within the poll, or to begin a discussion of an indirectly related point, link to a section on the talk page.

Anyone may participate in the discussion.

Civil and relevant discussion, based upon Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, is welcome from any editor in the community, whether with or without an account. However, disruptive comments, and contributions by sockpuppets, banned users, or currently blocked users are not permitted and will either be removed or struck out.

Editors under a block restriction can be temporarily unblocked by an uninvolved administrator upon request, provided they were blocked by the administrator being reviewed and the nomination is materially related to that block. The block will be lifted for the duration of, and the sole purpose of participating in, the CDA.

The poll

The poll contains three sections: support, oppose, and neutral. An opinion is registered with a signed numbered list entry (the # markup).

Commenting next to the vote is strongly encouraged. !Votes presented without a rationale and "per" comments are both strongly discouraged, and may be discounted by the closing Bureaucrat.

Community de-adminship is not a replacement for Wikipedia:Requests for comments, and is not structured like a user RfC. In particular, there is only one poll of signatures, because there is only one thing to assess: the consensus for removing or not.

Editors (including nominators) may change their minds during the discussion period. To signify that, they can strike through the old opinion (changing the # markup to #: so that the list numbering remains correct) and sign the new opinion. All struck nominations are removed on certification.