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VOTING IS CLOSED: RESULTS PENDING

The seventh Elections to the English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee began on 10 November 2009, with self-nominations through the submission of a candidate statement. Nominations were accepted from 10 to 24 November 2009. Voting was open from 1 December 2009 to 14 December 2009 using the SecurePoll extension for a secret ballot with the traditional options of support/abstain/oppose. The scrutineers were Mardetanha, Effeietsanders‎, Laaknor, Thogo, Millosh and Erwin; the election administrators were Mr.Z-man, Happy-melon, and Tznkai. The appointments will be announced ceremonially by Jimbo Wales shortly. The successful candidates are due to take their seats on 1 January 2010.

Vacant seats

The number of sitting arbitrators as of 2 January 2009 was 17, down from 18 due to the resignation of one arbitrator (Deskana) soon after appointment. The terms of four arbitrators (Coren, FloNight, Kirill Lokshin and Stephen Bain) are due to expire on 31 December 2009; four arbitrators (Casliber, FT2, John Vandenberg and Sam Blacketer) stepped down before finishing terms that would have extended into 2010.

The number of candidates to be appointed and the length of their terms was subject to community discussion at this Request for Comment. Consensus was reached that there will be 18 seats on the Committee, with incoming arbitrators elected to two-year terms. Assuming that no more sitting arbitrators resign or are removed before 31 December 2009, this election is expected to elect nine new members to the Committee.

Process

General discussion about the election process may be found here.

The process used in this election was at least in part based around the following points, derived from past elections.

  1. The election opened formally at 00:00 UTC on 10 November 2009, when candidates were able to submit their candidate statements through to 23:59 UTC on 24 November 2009.
  2. General questions (submitted once on a single page, and answered by every candidate) were accepted 27 October – 10 November 2009, after which a condensed version was transcluded to each candidate's "/Questions for the candidate" subpage.
  3. Individual questions were asked of each candidate 10 November 2009 – 1 December 2009 on his or her "/Questions for the candidate" subpage, reachable through the candidate statement. Questions that had already been asked of all the candidates were discouraged.
  4. Voting started at 00:00 UTC on 1 December 2009 and ended at 23:59 UTC on 14 December 2009. Within this period, eligible voters could vote for or against as few or as many candidates as they wished. Records of the voting were maintained at the list of votes cast and at a manual voter log.
  5. In order to vote, editors were required to have had a registered account with at least 150 mainspace edits on or before 1 November 2009 and not to be blocked.

In a break from the process used in previous ArbCom elections, secret ballots were implemented in this election using Special:SecurePoll, based on consensus at this Request for Comment and positive feedback on the use of the system in the October 2009 Audit Subcommittee election. If you have questions about or problems with the voting process, please ask.

Results

Voting in the annual election for the English Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee was held from 1 to 14 December 2009, and has now closed. The tally of the votes is as follows:

Candidate Support Neutral Oppose Net[note 1] Percentage[note 2]
AGK 308 461 227 081 57.57
Cla68 273 401 322 -049 45.88
Coren 444 363 189 255 70.14
Fred Bauder 281 356 359 -078 43.90
Fritzpoll 351 502 143 208 71.05
Hersfold 351 453 192 159 64.64
Jehochman 257 330 409 -152 38.59
Kirill Lokshin 507 301 188 319 72.95
Kmweber 102 307 587 -485 14.80
KnightLago 265 555 176 089 60.09
Mailer diablo 365 462 169 196 68.35
MBK004 202 600 194 008
RMHED 98 406 492 -394
Ruslik0 267 522 207 060
Seddon 206 545 245 -039
Shell Kinney 309 480 207 102
SirFozzie 364 435 197 167
Steve Smith 338 481 177 161
Unomi 91 537 368 -277
Wehwalt 272 475 249 023
William M. Connolley 234 284 478 -244
Xavexgoem 235 539 222 013
Notes
  1. ^ Net = Support − Oppose
  2. ^ Percentage = Support / (Support + Oppose)

One candidate, Chutznik, withdrew at 13:54, 24 November 2009, before the start of voting. One candidate, Secret, withdrew at 13:19, 7 December 2009, during the voting period.

The scrutineers for the election – Mardetanha, Effeietsanders‎, Laaknor, Thogo, Millosh and Erwin – have certified the tally, i.e., the number of support, neutral and oppose votes, and will append their signatures below.

  1. Results certified by: --Mardetanha talk 22:40, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Results certified by:
  3. Results certified by: --effeietsanders 22:45, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Results certified by:
  5. Results certified by: --Thogo (Talk) 22:41, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Results certified by: Erwin (talk) 22:39, 18 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Jimbo Wales will be informed of the results and is expected to announce the successful candidates by 21 December.

On behalf of the scrutineers, Erwin (talk) 22:39, 18 December 2009 (UTC).[reply]

See also

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