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Arbitration series

Elections conclude, arbitrators to be chosen

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Editor's note: Jimbo Wales's selections for the Arbitration Committee will be published in the December 26th issue.

The December 2006 Arbitration Committee elections concluded this week. 31 candidates ran for one of at least six positions on the Committee. It is anticipated that Jimbo Wales will make his selections for the Committee this week.

At the beginning of the elections, 37 candidates had submitted their names; however, six candidates — crazytales56297, Doc glasgow, freakofnurture, JzG, MONGO, and Voice of All, had withdrawn from the race. Radiant! also resigned, but later re-entered the race.

It is believed that at least six seats will be available in the race, with the resignation of Mindspillage, who was nominated to one of three new seats on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees (see archived story). The other five seats will come from the five positions in Tranche Gamma, where no sitting arbitrator chose to stand in the elections. These five seats would serve a three-year term ending in December 2009, while the person chosen to replace Mindspillage in Tranche Beta would next stand for election in December 2008.

At the end of the elections, just three candidates held over 90% support: Flcelloguy, Kirill Lokshin, and Paul August. Two other candidates (UninvitedCompany and Jpgordon) held at least 85% support, and FloNight and Blnguyen ran close behind, with 84%. Can't sleep, clown will eat me received the most support votes (303), but with 100 oppose votes, his 75% support ranked 8th. In all, 17 of the 32 candidates held at least 50% support, making them eligible to be chosen by Jimbo Wales at the close of the elections.

Final election statistics are available at User:Gurch/Reports/ArbComElections and User:Mathbot/ArbCom Election December 2006; the former utilizes the new sortable wikitable syntax, allowing users to sort the results by the number of support and oppose votes, the support-oppose margin, and the support percentage.

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To Tranche Gamma:
Flcelloguy
Kirill Lokshin
Paul August
UninvitedCompany
Jpgordon

To Tranche Beta
FloNight (Mindspillage's seat, from which she recently retired)
Binguyen (Filiocht's seat, as he is on indefinite leave)

From http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-December/059354.html - crz crztalk 06:27, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

It's too late for last week's Signpost so Ral has already fixed his note to say that the results will be in tomorrow's issue. Kimchi.sg 06:37, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I know. I posted here b/c people are watching this page. - crz crztalk 06:39, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Why Even Have The Election?

If Jimbo chooses them anyway, what's the point of voting? Does he just pick the ones at the top to avoid people bothering him later on? It seems useless. Just H 01:26, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

The point of voting is that, in fact, he did pick the people who had the highest percentage of support votes. In strict political-science terms, this election really is a "primary" election, as it serves to nominate people for selection in a later process (in this case an appointment.) But a primary is still an election. 6SJ7 01:53, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

Because even though Jimbo's parole is considered policy, and he could theoretically appoint User:Willy on Wheels, he chose not to do so without the community's input, if only because there had to be widespread agreement that all those on the ArbCom are accepted as such for their judgement to be respected by the community at large.Circeus 04:02, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

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