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title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Questions">Questions for the candidates</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021/Candidates/Discussion" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Candidates/Discussion">Discuss the candidates</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"> <div class="ace-banner-guides-title"><div>Personal voter guides</div></div> <div class="mw-collapsible-content"> <p>These <a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Arbitration_Committee_Elections_2024_voter_guides" title="Category:Wikipedia Arbitration Committee Elections 2024 voter guides">guides</a> represent the thoughts of their authors. All individually written voter guides are eligible for inclusion. </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/User_talk:The_Rambling_Man/Arbcom" title="User talk:The Rambling Man/Arbcom">TRM</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Kudpung/ACE2021&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Kudpung/ACE2021 (page does not exist)">Kudpung</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/User:Nick/ACE2021" title="User:Nick/ACE2021">Nick</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/User:Atsme/ACE2021" title="User:Atsme/ACE2021">Atsme</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/User:Epiphyllumlover/ACE_2021" title="User:Epiphyllumlover/ACE 2021">Epiphyllumlover</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/User:Ealdgyth/2021_Arb_Election_votes" title="User:Ealdgyth/2021 Arb Election votes">Ealdgyth</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/User:Giraffer/ACE2021" title="User:Giraffer/ACE2021">Giraffer</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/User:Pythoncoder/ACE/2021" title="User:Pythoncoder/ACE/2021">Pythoncoder</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/User:Tryptofish/ACE2021" title="User:Tryptofish/ACE2021">Tryptofish</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/User:Elonka/ACE2021" title="User:Elonka/ACE2021">Elonka</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/User:Moneytrees/ACE2021" title="User:Moneytrees/ACE2021">Moneytrees</a></li></ul></div></div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><br/> The nineteenth annual <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Elections" title="Wikipedia:Elections">election</a> for the English Wikipedia's <b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee">Arbitration Committee</a></b> took place in November and December 2021. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Election_process" data-mw-thread-id="h-Election_process-2021-12-15T22:29:00.000Z"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Election_process-2021-12-15T22:29:00.000Z"></span>Election process<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Election_process-2021-12-15T22:29:00.000Z"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Election process"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-bar"><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-metadata"></div><div class="ext-discussiontools-init-section-actions"></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Before_the_election" data-mw-thread-id="h-Before_the_election-Election_process"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Before_the_election-Election_process"></span>Before the election<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Before_the_election-Election_process"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Before the election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">These processes must be initiated and evaluated by volunteer coordinators, as there is no Electoral Commission at this stage.</div> <ol><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021" title="Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021">Election Request for Comment</a></b> (from <i>00:00, 01 September 2021 (UTC)</i> until <i>23:59, 30 September 2021 (UTC)</i>) → the pre-election RfC ran for 30 days in September.</li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021/Electoral_Commission" title="Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Electoral Commission">Electoral Commission Request for Comment</a></b> → the Electoral Commission was selected across three weeks in October: <dl><dd>(i) 7-day self-nomination period (from <i>Saturday 00:00, 02 October 2021 (UTC)</i> until <i>Friday 23:59, 08 October 2021 (UTC)</i>) → open to users who: a) are at least 18 years old, b) satisfy the <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_to_nonpublic_personal_data_policy" class="extiw" title="meta:Access to nonpublic personal data policy">access to nonpublic personal data policy</a>, and c) are otherwise eligible to vote.</dd> <dd>(ii) 7-day evaluation period (from <i>Saturday 00:00, 09 October 2021 (UTC)</i> until <i>Friday 23:59, 15 October 2021 (UTC)</i>) (Note: Community input is restricted to the evaluation period).</dd> <dd>(iii) 7-day selection deadline (must be completed by <i>Friday 00:00, 22 October 2021 (UTC)</i>)</dd></dl></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Election_timeline" data-mw-thread-id="h-Election_timeline-Election_process"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Election_timeline-Election_process"></span>Election timeline<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Election_timeline-Election_process"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Election timeline"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ol><li><b>Self-nomination period</b> (from <i>Sunday 00:00, 07 November 2021 (UTC)</i> until <i>Tuesday 23:59, 16 November 2021 (UTC)</i> → interested editors were invited to submit a candidate statement. An editor is eligible to stand as a candidate who: <dl><dd>(i) has a registered account and has made at least 500 mainspace edits before 1 November 2021,</dd> <dd>(ii) is not subject to active blocks or site-bans,</dd> <dd>(iii) meets the Wikimedia Foundation's <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Access_to_nonpublic_information_policy" class="extiw" title="meta:Access to nonpublic information policy">criteria for access to non-public data</a>, is willing to sign the Foundation's non-public information <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Confidentiality_agreement_for_nonpublic_information" class="extiw" title="meta:Confidentiality agreement for nonpublic information">confidentiality agreement</a>, and</dd> <dd>(iv) has disclosed any previous or alternate accounts in their election statements (legitimate accounts which have been declared to the Arbitration Committee before the close of nominations do not need to be publicly disclosed).</dd></dl></li> <li><span class="anchor" id="eligibility"></span><b>Voting period</b> (from <i>Tuesday 00:00, 23 November 2021 (UTC)</i> until <i>Monday 23:59, 06 December 2021 (UTC)</i> → eligible voters voted on the candidates, using the <i><b><a href="/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/801" title="Special:SecurePoll/vote/801">SecurePoll</a></b></i> system. An editor is <b>eligible</b> to vote who: <dl><dd>(i) has registered an account before Friday 00:00, 1 October 2021</dd> <dd>(ii) has made at least 150 mainspace edits before Monday 00:00, 1 November 2021</dd> <dd>(iii) has made at least 10 live edits (in any namespace) in the one year prior to Monday 00:00, 1 November 2021 and,</dd> <dd>(iv) is not blocked from the English Wikipedia at the time of their vote.</dd></dl></li> <li><b>Scrutineering period</b> (immediately following the voting period) → scrutineers, consisting of <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards" class="extiw" title="m:Stewards">stewards</a> whose main wikis are <i>not</i> the English Wikipedia, are checking the votes (e.g. for duplicate, missing, and ineligible votes), and compile a tally of the results. For more details, see the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021/Coordination/Instructions_for_scrutineers" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Coordination/Instructions for scrutineers">instructions for scrutineers</a>.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Community_notification" data-mw-thread-id="h-Community_notification-Election_timeline"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Community_notification-Election_timeline"></span>Community notification<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Community_notification-Election_timeline"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Community notification"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When voting started, a mass message was sent out to all eligible voters that had been active within the last 12 months and meet other criteria. If this could not be done within 72 hours of the voting starting, the Electoral Commission could have elected to notify all eligible voters. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Results" data-mw-thread-id="h-Results-Election_process-2021-12-15T22:29:00.000Z"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Results-Election_process-2021-12-15T22:29:00.000Z"></span>Results<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Results-Election_process-2021-12-15T22:29:00.000Z"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Results"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="c-Cyberpower678-2021-12-15T22:29:00.000Z-Results"></span>Following the voting period, the scrutineers examined the votes and released a tally of the results. The tally ranked candidates by their performance according to the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021" title="Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021">criteria for success in this election</a>, defined as the number of votes cast in support of the candidate divided by the total number of votes cast both for and against (commonly described as "support over support plus oppose" or "S/(S+O)"). "Neutral" preferences were not counted in this metric. A total of <a class="external text" href="https://vote.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/list/1303">1633 ballots</a> were cast including 63 duplicates, leaving 1572 votes. 2 votes were further invalidated, thereby resulting in 1570 votes which are tallied below. </p> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="text-align: center;"> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Candidate </th> <th scope="col">Support </th> <th scope="col">Neutral<sup id="cite_ref-nbNoVote_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nbNoVote-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th scope="col">Oppose </th> <th scope="col">Net<sup id="cite_ref-nbNet_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nbNet-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th scope="col">Percentage<sup id="cite_ref-nbPercentage_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nbPercentage-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>note 3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th scope="col">Result </th></tr> <tr style="background:#cfc;"> <th scope="row" style="background:transparent"><a href="/wiki/User:Worm_That_Turned" title="User:Worm That Turned">Worm That Turned</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Worm_That_Turned" title="User talk:Worm That Turned">talk</a> <b>·</b> <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Worm_That_Turned" title="Special:Contributions/Worm That Turned">contribs</a>) </th> <td>906 </td> <td>421 </td> <td>243 </td> <td>663 </td> <td>78.85% </td> <td>Two-year term </td></tr> <tr style="background:#cfc;"> <th scope="row" style="background:transparent"><a href="/wiki/User:Opabinia_regalis" title="User:Opabinia regalis">Opabinia regalis</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Opabinia_regalis" title="User talk:Opabinia regalis">talk</a> <b>·</b> <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Opabinia_regalis" title="Special:Contributions/Opabinia regalis">contribs</a>) </th> <td>794 </td> <td>536 </td> <td>240 </td> 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The "Neutral" column is simply the total votes for which voters did not select the Support or Oppose option.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-nbNet-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-nbNet_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Net = Support − Oppose</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-nbPercentage-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-nbPercentage_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Percentage = (Support / (Support + Oppose)) * 100 (rounded to 2 decimal places)</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <p>For ElectCom, —<a href="/wiki/User:Cyberpower678" title="User:Cyberpower678"><span style="font-family:monospace;color:green"><b>CYBER<span style="color:red">POWER</span></b></span></a> <span style="font-family:Rockwell">(<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Cyberpower678" title="User talk:Cyberpower678"><span style="color:red">Merry Christmas</span></a>)</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021#c-Cyberpower678-2021-12-15T22:29:00.000Z-Results" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:29, 15 December 2021 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons" data-mw-thread-id="c-Cyberpower678-2021-12-15T22:29:00.000Z-Results"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span><span data-mw-comment-end="c-Cyberpower678-2021-12-15T22:29:00.000Z-Results"></span> </p> <dl><dt><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="c-Martin_Urbanec-2021-12-15T22:39:00.000Z-Results"></span>Results certified by</dt> <dd></dd></dl> <ol><li>--<a href="/wiki/User:Martin_Urbanec" title="User:Martin Urbanec">Martin Urbanec</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Martin_Urbanec" title="User talk:Martin Urbanec">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021#c-Martin_Urbanec-2021-12-15T22:39:00.000Z-Results" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:39, 15 December 2021 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons" data-mw-thread-id="c-Martin_Urbanec-2021-12-15T22:39:00.000Z-Results"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span><span data-mw-comment-end="c-Martin_Urbanec-2021-12-15T22:39:00.000Z-Results"></span></li> <li><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="c-Tks4Fish-2021-12-15T22:45:00.000Z-Martin_Urbanec-2021-12-15T22:39:00.000Z"></span>—<i><b><span style="font-family:Candara"><a href="/wiki/User:Tks4Fish" title="User:Tks4Fish"><span style="color:black">Thanks for the fish!</span></a> <sup><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Tks4Fish" title="User 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id="c-Sotiale-2021-12-15T22:55:00.000Z-Martin_Urbanec-2021-12-15T22:39:00.000Z"></span>--<a href="/wiki/User:Sotiale" title="User:Sotiale">Sotiale</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Sotiale" title="User talk:Sotiale">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021#c-Sotiale-2021-12-15T22:55:00.000Z-Martin_Urbanec-2021-12-15T22:39:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:55, 15 December 2021 (UTC)</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-buttons" data-mw-thread-id="c-Sotiale-2021-12-15T22:55:00.000Z-Martin_Urbanec-2021-12-15T22:39:00.000Z"><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">[</span><a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a><span class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-bracket">]</span></span><span data-mw-comment-end="c-Sotiale-2021-12-15T22:55:00.000Z-Martin_Urbanec-2021-12-15T22:39:00.000Z"></span></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Election_rules" data-mw-thread-id="h-Election_rules"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Election_rules"></span>Election rules<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Election_rules"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Election rules"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The rules for the election were determined by successive community Requests for Comment. Prior rules continued to be in force unless they had specific expiration dates or had been subsequently repealed or amended. A referenced summary of the election rules is available at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Arbitration_Committee_Elections/ACERFC_decisions_to_date" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections/ACERFC decisions to date">ACERFC decisions to date</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Vacant_seats" data-mw-thread-id="h-Vacant_seats"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Vacant_seats"></span>Vacant seats<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Vacant_seats"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Vacant seats"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For the 2021 election, seven current arbitrators were to remain on the committee. This left <b>eight (8) vacant seats to be filled in this election</b> for either a two-year term <small>(January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2023)</small> or a one-year term <small>(January 1, 2022 – December 31, 2022)</small>, depending on the candidate's level of support. Candidates were appointed in decreasing order of their percentage of support, as calculated by <b>support/(support + oppose)</b>, until all seats were filled or no more candidates met the required support percentage. There was a <i>neutral</i> option; choosing this option would not affect the support percentage for the candidate, and was treated as though you did not vote with respect to that candidate. </p><p>The minimum percentage of support that is required is 60% for a two-year term, and 50% for a one-year term. If any of the seven current arbitrators in midterm resigned or otherwise left the committee before the start of voting, the additional vacated seat would be filled for a one-year term in this election, after the original eight vacant seats are filled. 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id="Coordination" data-mw-thread-id="h-Coordination"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Coordination"></span>Coordination<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Coordination"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Coordination"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021/Coordination" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Coordination">Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Coordination</a></div> <p>The Arbitration Committee elections are organized entirely by community volunteers, independent of the Arbitration Committee itself. Before every election, an RfC is held so that the community may propose and implement any changes to the format of the election. Any rules or practices that were not specifically changed by the RfC are carried over from the previous election. </p><p>Ordinary editors who help run the day-to-day operations of the election are known as <b>coordinators</b>. Election coordinators have no special authority or abilities, but facilitate the smooth running of the election in any way that is needed. Editors interested in helping run the election can add their names to the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:COORD21#Coordinators" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:COORD21">list of coordinators</a>. </p><p>The three-member <b>Electoral Commission</b> is appointed by the community in a separate RfC before the election. Commissioners are responsible for addressing any unforeseen problems that may arise in the election process, and for adjudicating any disputes relating to the election. The Election Commission has the full mandate and authority to decisively settle any issues that arise. In addition, while the Electoral Commission itself is not inherently responsible for logistics of the election, Commissioners should ensure that preparations for the election move forward in a timely fashion. As such, Commissioners are <i>de facto</i> coordinators and usually have an active role in running the election. </p><p>The last group of volunteers are the <b>scrutineers</b>. Three scrutineers are drawn from <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards" class="extiw" title="meta:Stewards">stewards</a> who primarily work at <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_projects" class="extiw" title="meta:List of projects">other projects</a>. Scrutineers are responsible for providing oversight for the voting process itself. Scrutineers' responsibilities include guarding against abuse and technical errors, ensuring that valid votes are counted while invalid ones are discarded, and confirming that the final tally of votes is correct and certifying the official results. Scrutineers work behind the scenes and are not otherwise involved in coordinating the more minor areas of the election. The Electoral Commission is the liaison between the scrutineers and the rest of the community. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Guides" data-mw-thread-id="h-Guides"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Guides"></span>Guides<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Guides"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Guides"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See the <a href="#Election_timeline">"Election timeline"</a> section above for voter and candidate eligibility requirements</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="For_candidates" data-mw-thread-id="h-For_candidates-Guides"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-For_candidates-Guides"></span>For candidates<span data-mw-comment-end="h-For_candidates-Guides"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: For candidates"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Nominations for candidates opened at 00:00 UTC, 07 November 2021 and closed at 23:59 UTC, 16 November 2021. During this time, any editor in good standing who met the criteria stated in the <a href="#Election_timeline">"Election timeline" section above</a> could nominate themselves by following the instructions to create a candidate statement on the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021/Candidates" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Candidates">candidates page</a>. Once a candidate made their statement, they could proceed to answer individual questions as they wished (see the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021/Questions" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Questions">questions page</a> for details and instructions). Candidates could continue to answer questions until the end of the voting period (23:59 UTC, 06 December 2021). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="For_voters" data-mw-thread-id="h-For_voters-Guides"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-For_voters-Guides"></span>For voters<span data-mw-comment-end="h-For_voters-Guides"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: For voters"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:5-minute_guide_to_ArbCom_elections" title="Wikipedia:5-minute guide to ArbCom elections">Wikipedia:5-minute guide to ArbCom elections</a></div> <p>Once candidates nominated themselves, voters were invited to review and discuss them. Voters could ask questions throughout the election. </p><p>To facilitate their discussions and judgements, voters were encouraged to familiarize themselves with the candidates. This could be done through reading the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021/Candidates" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Candidates">candidate statements</a>, the answers to the questions put to each candidate (linked from their candidate statements), and the discussion of each candidate (a centralized collection of which was made available at the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021/Candidates/Discussion" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Candidates/Discussion">discussion page</a>). In addition, a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021/Candidates/Guide" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Candidates/Guide">summary guide</a> to candidates was made available, and augmented by a <a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Arbitration_Committee_Elections_2021_voter_guides" title="Category:Wikipedia Arbitration Committee Elections 2021 voter guides">set of personal guides</a> by individual voters. </p><p>Voting ran for 14 days, from 00:00 UTC, 23 November 2021 to 23:59 UTC, 06 December 2021. The process was conducted using the <a href="/wiki/Special:SecurePoll" title="Special:SecurePoll">SecurePoll</a> extension which ensured that individual voters' decisions were not publicly viewable (although technical information about voters, such as their IP address and user-agents, were visible to the WMF-identified election administrators and scrutineers). </p><p>Voters were invited to choose one of three options for each candidate: "Support", "Oppose" or "Neutral"; and the number of "Support", "Oppose" or "Neutral" preferences a voter could express was otherwise limited only by the number of candidates. After voters entered their choices for all of the candidates and submitted their votes, they could revisit and change their decisions, but attempting to do so would require expressing preferences for all candidates from scratch. Because of the risk of server lag, voters were advised to cast their vote at the latest <u>an hour before the close of voting</u> to ensure their vote would be counted. </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238436933"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1255103175"><table class="plainlinks ombox ombox-notice ace-banner" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="ArbCom"><img alt="ArbCom" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Judges_cupola.svg/50px-Judges_cupola.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Judges_cupola.svg/75px-Judges_cupola.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Judges_cupola.svg/100px-Judges_cupola.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="155" data-file-height="123"/></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="ace-banner-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:ACE2021" title="Template:ACE2021"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Template_talk:ACE2021&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Template talk:ACE2021 (page does not exist)"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:ACE2021" title="Special:EditPage/Template:ACE2021"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist ace-banner-lead-links"><ul><li><span class="ace-banner-mainpage"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">2021 Arbitration Committee Elections</a></span></li><li><a class="external text" href="https://vote.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/list/1303">Voter log</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021/Coordination" title="Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Coordination">Contact the coordinators</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021" title="Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021">Discuss the elections</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:5-minute_guide_to_ArbCom_elections" title="Wikipedia:5-minute guide to ArbCom elections">Quick guide</a></li></ul></div><span class="ace-banner-candidates">Candidates: </span><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist ace-banner-candidates-links inline"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021/Candidates/Guide" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Candidates/Guide">Candidate guide</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021/Candidates" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Candidates">Candidate statements</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021/Questions" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Questions">Questions for the candidates</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021/Candidates/Discussion" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021/Candidates/Discussion">Discuss the candidates</a></li></ul></div><div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"> <div class="ace-banner-guides-title"><div>Personal voter guides</div></div> <div class="mw-collapsible-content"> <p>These <a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Arbitration_Committee_Elections_2024_voter_guides" title="Category:Wikipedia Arbitration Committee Elections 2024 voter guides">guides</a> represent the thoughts of their authors. 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