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 |status  = closed
 |comment = There is no clear consensus on the proposal. Just over 50% of the participants supported the change, so closing this RFC as unsuccessful in gaining consensus to change the policy. --[[User:Jyothis|Jyothis]] ([[User talk:Jyothis|talk]]) 23:08, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
 |date    = 2015
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[[:m:Stewards policy#Poll after a year|Stewards policy#Poll after a year]] says:
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Steward status is granted until the next yearly elections, where users will be invited to comment and in particular to ask for removal of status.
Should the stewards determine that consensus exists for a steward's rights be removed, the steward will lose their status.
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I propose to change this to:
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Steward status is granted until the next yearly elections, where users will be invited to comment on every steward as to whether they should keep the status or not,
preferably giving reasons for their opinions.
Should the stewards determine that no consensus exists for a steward's rights to be kept, the steward will lose their status.}}

סיבות לשינוי זה:

* The current text makes it almost impossible to remove a steward, even if there's significant opposition; this means they cannot really be considered to be the "most trusted users" on Wikimedia anymore. Currently stewards are kept with even 40-50% of participants commenting against them, as even though there is no consensus to keep them, there is no consensus to remove them either.
* The new text will make the process more logical, as now in both steward elections and steward confirmations, consensus ''for'' the (continued) stewardship is required.
* One could argue that current stewards are more likely to have opponents as result of their sometimes controversial work, but even though this might be the case, it does not mean that a current steward does not need to be trusted anymore. Individual cases of revenge opposes don't have much weight in a decision involving an entire community, and in the determination of the result, obvious revenge opposes as well as opposes irrelevant to steward work are counted less or ignored anyway.
* Comparable rights, like global sysop, require only a [[Global sysops#Removal|significant minority for removal]]. Holders of [[CheckUser]] and [[Oversight]] rights also still need the required minimum % of votes in re-elections/confirmations (70-80%).

--<small>[[User:MF-Warburg|MF-W]]</small> 15:48, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

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