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All individually written voter guides are eligible for inclusion. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/User:Elonka/ACE2020" title="User:Elonka/ACE2020">Elonka</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/User:Pythoncoder/ACE2020" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Pythoncoder/ACE2020">Pythoncoder</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/User:Atsme/ACE2020" title="User:Atsme/ACE2020">Atsme</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/User:Epiphyllumlover/ACE_2020" title="User:Epiphyllumlover/ACE 2020">Epiphyllumlover</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/User:Tryptofish/ACE2020" title="User:Tryptofish/ACE2020">Tryptofish</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/User:Gerda_Arendt/ACE_2020" title="User:Gerda Arendt/ACE 2020">Gerda Arendt</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/User:DGG/ACE2020" title="User:DGG/ACE2020">DGG</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/User:Ealdgyth/2020_Arb_Election_votes" title="User:Ealdgyth/2020 Arb Election votes">Ealdgyth</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/User:Wugapodes/ACE2020" title="User:Wugapodes/ACE2020">Wugapodes</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/User:AmandaNP/ACE_2020" title="User:AmandaNP/ACE 2020">AmandaNP</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/User:The_Rambling_Man/Arbcom_2020" title="User:The Rambling Man/Arbcom 2020">The Rambling Man</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/User:SandyGeorgia/ArbVotes2020" title="User:SandyGeorgia/ArbVotes2020">SandyGeorgia</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/User:QEDK/ACE2020" title="User:QEDK/ACE2020">QEDK</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/User:Nick/ACE2020" title="User:Nick/ACE2020">Nick</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Kudpung/Arbcom&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Kudpung/Arbcom (page does not exist)">Kudpung</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/User:MJL/Electoral_Guide/2020" title="User:MJL/Electoral Guide/2020">MJL</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/User:Reaper_Eternal/ACE2020" title="User:Reaper Eternal/ACE2020">Reaper Eternal</a></li></ul></div></div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="S_Marshall's_questioning_to_Bradv" data-mw-thread-id="h-S_Marshall's_questioning_to_Bradv-2020-11-15T04:36:00.000Z">S Marshall's questioning to Bradv</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: S Marshall's questioning to Bradv">edit</a>]<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> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235781174">.mw-parser-output .hmbox-outer{margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .hmbox-inner{display:inline-block;color:var(--color-base,#202122);border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);margin-right:0.5em;padding:0.3em 0.5em}</style><div role="note" class="hmbox-outer resolved"><div class="hmbox-inner"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Purple_arrow_right.svg/20px-Purple_arrow_right.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Purple_arrow_right.svg/30px-Purple_arrow_right.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Purple_arrow_right.svg/40px-Purple_arrow_right.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="250" data-file-height="250"/> Moved to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020/Coordination#S_Marshall's_questioning_to_Bradv" title="Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2020/Coordination">Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2020/Coordination § S Marshall's questioning to Bradv</a></div> – <a href="/wiki/User:Mz7" title="User:Mz7">Mz7</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Mz7" title="User talk:Mz7">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Mz7-2020-11-15T04:36:00.000Z-S_Marshall's_questioning_to_Bradv" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">04:36, 15 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Late_nominations_-_why_do_candidates_wait?" data-mw-thread-id="h-Late_nominations_-_why_do_candidates_wait?-2020-11-15T13:22:00.000Z">Late nominations - why do candidates wait?</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Late nominations - why do candidates wait?">edit</a>]<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> There is always a bias towards the end of the nomination period for candidates to self nominate, this year more extreme than most. I personally don't think this is healthy for the project, and when I've stood (I'm not currently planning on doing so this year) I've always self-nominated towards the start of the period (last year it was a few days in as I was busy offline). However enough people do wait that they must perceive some benefit from doing so. So I want to understand what this perceived benefit is to see if there is anything can be done to remove it. In an ideal world there should be advantage or disadvantage to nominating at any point during the period available. <a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Thryduulf" title="User talk:Thryduulf">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Thryduulf-2020-11-15T13:22:00.000Z-Late_nominations_-_why_do_candidates_wait?" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:22, 15 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd></dd> <dd>As someone who was once a lastminute nomination myself it seems perfectly rational to me. If I were considering running again, surely it would just be common sense to see who else is running, both from the "is someone better qualified than me going to run" and from the "are there people among the likely winners whom I know I'd have difficulty working with?" perspective. ‑ <a href="/wiki/User:Iridescent" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Iridescent">Iridescent</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Iridescent-2020-11-15T14:00:00.000Z-Thryduulf-2020-11-15T13:22:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:00, 15 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>My thoughts: <ul><li>Waiting means that, if closer to the deadline candidates who are more likely to win nominate themselves, they don't have to worry about loosing or withdrawing. If the candidate pool is smaller and they think they have a better chance, they could then go for it. I say this because this process has a feel of RfA, where withdrawing and loosing may be seen as a "negative thing" when going for the process again, even if the withdraw is sensible and good / them not winning is because several other very good candidates were also nominated themselves</li> <li>Questions here can be hard to answer so, although this may not be a motivation for anyone, adding their nomination later means that the time for questions is shorter. The less time there is to ask questions probably means fewer questions are asked, so it means less time is spent by the candidate answering questions. I'm not suggesting any one nomination which was close to the deadline is because of this, but it might be a reason for a couple of previous candidates.</li> <li>People can be a bit last minute with these kind of things, regardless of motivation or situation. I'm certainly prone to being last minute at times, even for small things. <a href="/wiki/User:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User:Dreamy Jazz">Dreamy Jazz</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User talk:Dreamy Jazz">talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dreamy_Jazz" title="Special:Contributions/Dreamy Jazz">my contributions</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Dreamy_Jazz-2020-11-15T18:21:00.000Z-Thryduulf-2020-11-15T13:22:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:21, 15 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li></ul></dd></dl> I really think that for a lot of people they think they could get elected, but aren't convinced they want to be. ArbCom is not exactly the funnest unpaid job in the world and it can be intimidating, in particular to those who have not filled such a role before. So they wait to see if enough good candidates to fill all open spots show up. If they don't see what looks like a good candidate pool they cave in and nominate themselves. On occasion we've also seen the opposite, where a candidate withdraws because they feel there are enough good people that they aren't needed. <a href="/wiki/User:Beeblebrox" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Beeblebrox">Beeblebrox</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Beeblebrox" class="mw-redirect" title="User talk:Beeblebrox">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Beeblebrox-2020-11-15T19:39:00.000Z-Late_nominations_-_why_do_candidates_wait?" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:39, 15 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] Unlike real-world political elections, there isn't any fundraising needs or significant mindshare advantages, so there's not much incentive to submit a nomination early. If we want to give everyone more time to mull over the candidates, then we should extend the period of time between the close of nominations and the election. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Isaacl-2020-11-15T20:17:00.000Z-Late_nominations_-_why_do_candidates_wait?" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:17, 15 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] I think it's just a general phenomenon, probably akin to <a href="/wiki/Schelling_point" class="mw-redirect" title="Schelling point">Schelling points</a>. When there is a benefit to coordinating action, we see people spontaneously coordinate without communication or even explicit reasoning. There's <a href="/wiki/Safety_in_a_pack" class="mw-redirect" title="Safety in a pack">safety in a pack</a>, so it benefits candidates to nominate all together. This spontaneous coordination tends to converge on the most salient options (i.e., a Schelling point) because if an option stands out to me it probably stands out to you. There are two dates that could serve as Schelling points: open of nominations and close of nominations. So if candidates are (consciously or unconsciously) coordinating to nominate in packs, we would expect most nominations to come either at the beginning or end of the nomination period. Since nominating at the start increases the duration that you are under scrutiny, it counters the benefit of a pack nomination, and so open of nominations is probably a worse Schelling point than the end of the nomination period. This predicts a U-shaped distribution of nominations where the early peak is lower than the later peak (so I guess that makes it a J-shaped distribution?). I haven't run any stats, but looking at <a href="/wiki/User:SQL/AceStatsByDay" title="User:SQL/AceStatsByDay">User:SQL/AceStatsByDay</a> it does seem like there's a rough J-shaped distribution of nominations, with the larger peak towards the final days of nomination. That's not to say the other reasons given are wrong. In fact, the explanations already given are probably the shared lines of reasoning that lead to this pattern in the first place. However I think the game theoretic explanation helps understand why the J-shaped nomination distribution is probably going to happen no matter what we do. — <a href="/wiki/User:Wugapodes" title="User:Wugapodes">Wug·</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Wugapodes" title="User talk:Wugapodes">a·po·des</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Wugapodes-2020-11-15T22:14:00.000Z-Late_nominations_-_why_do_candidates_wait?" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:14, 15 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <ul><li>To build off the great thinking above, what incentive is there to go early? Speaking personally not only is there no incentive to go early I think there are active disincentives to go early. The Election Commission already had to get involved because of questions and that's really all an early nomination nets you: the chance to be asked more questions. Plus, as I like to say "deadlines spur action" so it's not surprising that people group around the deadline. The answer to all this, in my mind, is to either give some incentive for earlier nominations. One idea that was rejected during the ACE RfC this year was the idea of ballot order based on nomination time but some other incentive could maybe get support or to start the question/discussion period after the deadline (as we now do when selecting people for the election commission) and at least remove a disincentive. Best, <a href="/wiki/User:Barkeep49" title="User:Barkeep49">Barkeep49</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Barkeep49" title="User talk:Barkeep49">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Barkeep49-2020-11-17T18:30:00.000Z-Wugapodes-2020-11-15T22:14:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:30, 17 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <ul><li>I think the incentive would be immoral, not to mention potentially counterproductive - candidates unsure about running might well decide entirely against it because they hadn't been there at the start. However, there may be something to not having questions open during early nom. I find the middle question-only slot fairly short, so I'd probably want that to be expanded by 3-4 days if this route were to be taken. <a href="/wiki/User:Nosebagbear" title="User:Nosebagbear">Nosebagbear</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Nosebagbear" title="User talk:Nosebagbear">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Nosebagbear-2020-11-17T19:09:00.000Z-Barkeep49-2020-11-17T18:30:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:09, 17 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Well the community has already rejected that incentive so I won't disagree it's not an idea worth pursuing. But there could be other incentives given (maybe you get a few extra words in your candidate statement if you go early; this could be an incentive for some but not a disincentive for others as not everyone uses all their words now) if the community wanted to brainstorm. Best, <a href="/wiki/User:Barkeep49" title="User:Barkeep49">Barkeep49</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Barkeep49" title="User talk:Barkeep49">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Barkeep49-2020-11-17T19:12:00.000Z-Nosebagbear-2020-11-17T19:09:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:12, 17 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>The questioning disadvantage could be reduced (and maybe removed) if the questioning period started at the close of nominations. An early nomination would give people longer time to think of questions though, so which is why I don't say that would definitely solve it. <a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Thryduulf" title="User talk:Thryduulf">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Thryduulf-2020-11-17T19:20:00.000Z-Barkeep49-2020-11-17T19:12:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:20, 17 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I think this would get support, especially since we split the ElectCom RfC into two parts for a similar reason. I've added this at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_comment/Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021" title="Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021">Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021</a>. — <a href="/wiki/User:Wugapodes" title="User:Wugapodes">Wug·</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Wugapodes" title="User talk:Wugapodes">a·po·des</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Wugapodes-2020-11-17T19:33:00.000Z-Thryduulf-2020-11-17T19:20:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:33, 17 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>An advantage may be gained from seeing how others answered a question before you answer the question yourself. It's well known that some questioners ask the same questions of everyone. – <a href="/wiki/User:Wbm1058" title="User:Wbm1058">wbm1058</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Wbm1058" title="User talk:Wbm1058">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Wbm1058-2020-11-17T19:40:00.000Z-Wugapodes-2020-11-17T19:33:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:40, 17 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></li> <li>Before making any changes, we need to understand what problem are we trying to solve? If it's to give people more time to consider the candidates, I think it's simpler to shift the whole process up a week (or for whatever period deemed desirable) and thus have a longer pause before voting. If it's to ease anxiety about sufficient candidates running, then we should tackle this issue head on and find and recruit suitable candidates, which we ought to do anyway, regardless of the pattern of incoming nominations. (I don't have any particular objection to freezing questions until the end of nominations, but people nominate themselves early with full knowledge that questions will ensue, and for a more obscure candidate, this can be a way to foster more support.) <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Isaacl-2020-11-20T07:33:00.000Z-Barkeep49-2020-11-17T18:30:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">07:33, 20 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li></ul></li></ul> @<a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a>: re: "<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1248585704">@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .inline-quote-talk{color:#00B785}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .inline-quote-talk{color:#00B785}}.mw-parser-output .inline-quote-talk{font-family:Georgia,"DejaVu Serif",serif;color:#008560;quotes:none}.mw-parser-output .inline-quote-talk-italic{font-family:inherit;font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output .inline-quote-talk-marks{quotes:"\"""\""}</style><q class="inline-quote-talk">when I've stood (I'm not currently planning on doing so this year) I've always self-nominated towards the start of the period</q>"... At <a href="/wiki/Special:Diff/634436032" title="Special:Diff/634436032">21:45, 18 November 2014</a> you entered as the 19th candidate in an already crowded field (that peaked at 20 candidates), just 2 hours and 15 minutes before nominations closed. That year you were elected to a one-year term as the ninth of nine successful candidates. That year <a href="/wiki/Special:Diff/633953285" title="Special:Diff/633953285">I entered as just the third candidate in the field at 16:20, 15 November 2014</a> – 3 days, 5 hours and 25 minutes before you entered, but 4 days, 18 hours and 20 minutes after the first candidate entered the contest. I placed 15th of 20 with just 17.74% support from the voters. I vowed to myself not to make that mistake again. – <a href="/wiki/User:Wbm1058" title="User:Wbm1058">wbm1058</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Wbm1058" title="User talk:Wbm1058">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Wbm1058-2020-11-17T19:11:00.000Z-Late_nominations_-_why_do_candidates_wait?" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:11, 17 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <ul><li>@<a href="/wiki/User:Wbm1058" title="User:Wbm1058">Wbm1058</a>: my memory is faulty then, my apologies. <a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Thryduulf" title="User talk:Thryduulf">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Thryduulf-2020-11-17T19:18:00.000Z-Wbm1058-2020-11-17T19:11:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:18, 17 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>@<a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a>: perhaps, but a lot of questions that get thought of then get asked to multiple candidates, so it would be a fairly minimal issue <a href="/wiki/User:Nosebagbear" title="User:Nosebagbear">Nosebagbear</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Nosebagbear" title="User talk:Nosebagbear">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Nosebagbear-2020-11-17T19:34:00.000Z-Wbm1058-2020-11-17T19:11:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:34, 17 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li> <li>A bit late to this but I'd prefer no questions or discussions took place until all nominations were in; and perhaps even for no questions or discussions to be asked until 24 hours after the end of all nominations to reduce question bias against earlier nominations. Some candidates only stepped in to a possible dearth of candidates until very late on and a technology hiccup might have had a real effect here. <a href="/wiki/User:Djm-leighpark" title="User:Djm-leighpark">Djm-leighpark</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Djm-leighpark" title="User talk:Djm-leighpark">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Djm-leighpark-2020-11-18T17:39:00.000Z-Wbm1058-2020-11-17T19:11:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">17:39, 18 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/User:Djm-leighpark" title="User:Djm-leighpark">Djm-leighpark</a>, as someone who went through this twice - and ran the first time as a last minute candidate after being asked to run, I think this is an excellent idea and would help level the playing field. <a href="/wiki/User:Doug_Weller" title="User:Doug Weller">Doug Weller</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Doug_Weller" title="User talk:Doug Weller">talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Doug_Weller-2020-11-20T19:18:00.000Z-Djm-leighpark-2020-11-18T17:39:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:18, 20 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></li> <li>I put my name in earlier in the process because I wanted more time to answer questions. The Q&A is a good forum for presenting one's ideas and a great opportunity for the community to get to know the candidates, and I'd be somewhat surprised at any candidates who wouldn't want to take part in that process. I'm not sure why so many of the comments here assume that candidates were waiting so they could avoid questions – I assumed they were waiting until they had made up their minds on whether to run. Or they were just having trouble writing a nomination statement. – <a href="/wiki/User:Bradv" title="User:Bradv">bradv</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Bradv" title="User talk:Bradv">🍁</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Bradv-2020-11-20T19:27:00.000Z-Wbm1058-2020-11-17T19:11:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:27, 20 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li></ul> @<a href="/wiki/User:Thryduulf" title="User:Thryduulf">Thryduulf</a>: I've already posted my own reasons <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020/Candidates/SMcCandlish#"Last_minute"" title="Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2020/Candidates/SMcCandlish">over here</a>. Tiny version: There were too few candidates to fill seats when I checked, so my original plan to wait until 2021-12 seemed worth accelerating. And more Arbs and candidates than usual this year appear to share some of my key concerns/ideas (i.e., good opportunity to get some things done). There is no "strategy" in it (and I know enough from previous threads like this to realizethat there's actually a bit of prejudice against late-arriving candidates). — <a href="/wiki/User:SMcCandlish" title="User:SMcCandlish">SMcCandlish</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:SMcCandlish" title="User talk:SMcCandlish">☏</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish" title="Special:Contributions/SMcCandlish">¢</a> 😼 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-SMcCandlish-2020-11-21T19:37:00.000Z-Late_nominations_-_why_do_candidates_wait?" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:37, 21 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Questions_for_the_ArbCom_candidates" data-mw-thread-id="h-Questions_for_the_ArbCom_candidates-2020-11-18T00:57:00.000Z">Questions for the ArbCom candidates</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Questions for the ArbCom candidates">edit</a>]<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> There is a question that I'd like to ask this year's ArbCom candidates. Can I ask it as an unregistered editor, or can questions for the candidates only be asked by someone who has an account? <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/2600:1004:B145:6097:A431:808A:652B:2F44" title="Special:Contributions/2600:1004:B145:6097:A431:808A:652B:2F44">2600:1004:B145:6097:A431:808A:652B:2F44</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=User_talk:2600:1004:B145:6097:A431:808A:652B:2F44&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User talk:2600:1004:B145:6097:A431:808A:652B:2F44 (page does not exist)">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-2600:1004:B145:6097:A431:808A:652B:2F44-2020-11-18T00:57:00.000Z-Questions_for_the_ArbCom_candidates" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:57, 18 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I can't imagine any reason why it wouldn't be OK; I would assume you would be fine as long as you stick to the guidelines at the top of the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020/Questions" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2020/Questions">questions page</a>. <a href="/wiki/User:Perryprog" title="User:Perryprog">Perryprog</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Perryprog" title="User talk:Perryprog">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Perryprog-2020-11-18T01:12:00.000Z-2600:1004:B145:6097:A431:808A:652B:2F44-2020-11-18T00:57:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:12, 18 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Thanks; I've asked my question now. <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/2600:1004:B16C:69B2:4541:C054:A76F:AD06" title="Special:Contributions/2600:1004:B16C:69B2:4541:C054:A76F:AD06">2600:1004:B16C:69B2:4541:C054:A76F:AD06</a> (<a href="/w/index.php?title=User_talk:2600:1004:B16C:69B2:4541:C054:A76F:AD06&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User talk:2600:1004:B16C:69B2:4541:C054:A76F:AD06 (page does not exist)">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-2600:1004:B16C:69B2:4541:C054:A76F:AD06-2020-11-18T22:46:00.000Z-Perryprog-2020-11-18T01:12:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:46, 18 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd>@<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020/Coordination" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2020/Coordination">2020 ACE Commissioners</a>: <a href="/wiki/User:GeneralNotability" title="User:GeneralNotability"> </a><a href="/wiki/User:Mz7" title="User:Mz7"> </a><a href="/wiki/User:SQL" title="User:SQL"> </a><a href="/wiki/User:Wugapodes" title="User:Wugapodes"> </a> I actually have some concerns about this. A month ago someone on this IP range was found to be violating a topic ban. You can read <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive1049#Race_and_intelligence_block_and_ban_issue" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1049">this ANI thread</a> which covers most of the issue and lists the relevant IP ranges. There are also a couple revision deletions @<a href="/wiki/User:Dlthewave" title="User:Dlthewave">Dlthewave</a>: who did a lot of cleanup for that thread. I haven't had the chance to look into this thoroughly, but it's a strange series of facts to say the least. — <a href="/wiki/User:Wugapodes" title="User:Wugapodes">Wug·</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Wugapodes" title="User talk:Wugapodes">a·po·des</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Wugapodes-2020-11-18T23:43:00.000Z-2600:1004:B145:6097:A431:808A:652B:2F44-2020-11-18T00:57:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:43, 18 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/User:Wugapodes" title="User:Wugapodes">Wugapodes</a>, thanks for the heads up. I took a look, and like Perryprog, I'm not aware of any rules that would preclude unregistered users from asking a question. It also isn't clear to me from the ANI thread whether a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:TBAN" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:TBAN">topic ban</a> was ever enacted for this IP range or just a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PBLOCK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PBLOCK">partial block</a>. Since so far the IP's questions don't seem to violate any rules, I'm not sure whether any action from us is needed at this time. <a href="/wiki/User:Mz7" title="User:Mz7">Mz7</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Mz7" title="User talk:Mz7">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Mz7-2020-11-19T00:57:00.000Z-Wugapodes-2020-11-18T23:43:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:57, 19 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Also, that appears to be a (wide) mobile range, so it's not certain that the person behind this IP is the same one from the AN/I thread. Regardless, the question seems to be fairly reasonable, so no issues here. <a href="/wiki/User:GeneralNotability" title="User:GeneralNotability">GeneralNotability</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:GeneralNotability" title="User talk:GeneralNotability">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-GeneralNotability-2020-11-19T01:26:00.000Z-Mz7-2020-11-19T00:57:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:26, 19 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Oh, yes, sorry for not being clear. I wasn't trying to say the questions are unreasonable or against policy (I agree they're reasonable and allowed), or that this particular person is the same as the one at ANI (that's why I said someone and pointed out it was from a month ago). I just wanted to point out that activity on the range in case it did become relevant given some of the actual IP disruption we've seen. — <a href="/wiki/User:Wugapodes" title="User:Wugapodes">Wug·</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Wugapodes" title="User talk:Wugapodes">a·po·des</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Wugapodes-2020-11-19T01:45:00.000Z-GeneralNotability-2020-11-19T01:26:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:45, 19 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl> An IP editor who uses that range is currently under a Race and Intelligence topic ban documented <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive1035#Trolling" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1035">here</a> (April 2020) and confirmed by admins <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive1049#Race_and_intelligence_block_and_ban_issue" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive1049">here</a> (October 2020). The ban applies to the editor himself regardless of which address or account he may be using. –<a href="/wiki/User:Dlthewave" title="User:Dlthewave">dlthewave</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Dlthewave" title="User talk:Dlthewave">☎</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Dlthewave-2020-11-20T04:29:00.000Z-Questions_for_the_ArbCom_candidates" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">04:29, 20 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>The IP was topic banned regarding race and intelligence. It's worth noting also that this IP is linking to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://thecritic.co.uk/the-left-wing-bias-of-wikipedia/">an article</a> which directly mentions Wikipedia's article on <a href="/wiki/Race_and_intelligence" title="Race and intelligence">race and intelligence</a>. The link is specifically in support of the political views espoused by the IP. Broadly construed, linking to an off-site article to push a specific position about a topic counts as a topic ban violation. It doesn't matter whether or not the IP uses any specific words to promote this position, these edits are still fundamentally about the topic. <a href="/wiki/User:Grayfell" title="User:Grayfell">Grayfell</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Grayfell" title="User talk:Grayfell">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Grayfell-2020-11-30T01:33:00.000Z-Dlthewave-2020-11-20T04:29:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:33, 30 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Too_many_rules" data-mw-thread-id="h-Too_many_rules-2020-11-24T00:15:00.000Z">Too many rules</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Too many rules">edit</a>]<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> Ain't nobody getting my IP address or any other personal material. Therefore, I ain't voting. <a href="/wiki/User:GoodDay" title="User:GoodDay">GoodDay</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:GoodDay" title="User talk:GoodDay">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-GoodDay-2020-11-24T00:15:00.000Z-Too_many_rules" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:15, 24 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:GoodDay" title="User:GoodDay">GoodDay</a>: You do know that you give that information to Wikipedia each time you edit or perform another logged action, right? --<a href="/wiki/User:Guerillero" title="User:Guerillero">Guerillero</a> | <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Guerillero" title="User talk:Guerillero">Parlez Moi</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Guerillero-2020-11-24T00:17:00.000Z-GoodDay-2020-11-24T00:15:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:17, 24 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Maybe, but I'm not gonna do it through voting in Arbcom electons. Prefer the way it used to be. <a href="/wiki/User:GoodDay" title="User:GoodDay">GoodDay</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:GoodDay" title="User talk:GoodDay">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-GoodDay-2020-11-24T00:18:00.000Z-Guerillero-2020-11-24T00:17:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:18, 24 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>This has been the case in every ArbCom election since 2009. <a href="/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)" title="User:JSutherland (WMF)">Joe Sutherland (WMF)</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:JSutherland_(WMF)" title="User talk:JSutherland (WMF)">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-JSutherland_(WMF)-2020-11-24T00:27:00.000Z-GoodDay-2020-11-24T00:18:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:27, 24 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/User:GoodDay" title="User:GoodDay">GoodDay</a>, your logic makes no sense. Your giving the information right now by editing here. Voting or not changes nothing for you. —<a href="/wiki/User:Cyberpower678" title="User:Cyberpower678">CYBERPOWER</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Cyberpower678" title="User talk:Cyberpower678">Around</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Cyberpower678-2020-11-24T00:31:00.000Z-GoodDay-2020-11-24T00:18:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:31, 24 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/User:GoodDay" title="User:GoodDay">GoodDay</a>, just so we're clear: logging in logs these things. Making an edit logs these things. Sending an email through the wiki logs these things. Scrutineering has been a thing since <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2015#Should_adjustments_be_made_to_expedite_the_election_results?" title="Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2015">at least 2014</a>. There are <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020/Coordination/Instructions_for_scrutineers" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2020/Coordination/Instructions for scrutineers">specific limits</a> to how scrutineers may use the information provided here. Whether or not you vote is your decision, but this an established part of the process and (presumably) was created by community consensus as with all uses of the checkuser tool and the people performing the scrutineering are all restricted by the non-public information policy. <a href="/wiki/User:GeneralNotability" title="User:GeneralNotability">GeneralNotability</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:GeneralNotability" title="User talk:GeneralNotability">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-GeneralNotability-2020-11-24T00:32:00.000Z-GoodDay-2020-11-24T00:18:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:32, 24 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:GoodDay" title="User:GoodDay">GoodDay</a>: this seems to be a recurring concern for you, I suggest you bring up your suggested solution at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021" title="Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021">Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021</a>. — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Xaosflux-2020-11-24T00:30:00.000Z-GoodDay-2020-11-24T00:15:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:30, 24 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Something to consider. <a href="/wiki/User:GoodDay" title="User:GoodDay">GoodDay</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:GoodDay" title="User talk:GoodDay">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-GoodDay-2020-11-24T00:32:00.000Z-Xaosflux-2020-11-24T00:30:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:32, 24 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>For reference: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2018#Easier_access_to_vote" title="Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2018">Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2018 § Easier access to vote</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Isaacl-2020-11-24T00:33:00.000Z-Xaosflux-2020-11-24T00:30:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:33, 24 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Voter_eligibility" data-mw-thread-id="h-Voter_eligibility-2020-11-25T23:48:00.000Z">Voter eligibility</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Voter eligibility">edit</a>]<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> I've not been able to find an answer to this, but are partial blocks counted against the "is not blocked from the English Wikipedia at the time of their vote" part. Taking <a href="/wiki/User:Mr_Hall_of_England" title="User:Mr Hall of England">User:Mr Hall of England</a> as an example (a autoblock for them was at the top of <a href="/wiki/Special:BlockList" title="Special:BlockList">Special:BlockList</a> partial blocks for me), they are in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020/Coordination/SecurePoll" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2020/Coordination/SecurePoll">Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020/Coordination/SecurePoll</a>, but are not listed in any of the mass message lists (from a quick control and F) nor did they receive a mass message according to their talk page history. They were partially blocked 14 days ago, so before both the lists were created. I would have thought that all eligible voters get a mass message notification, so unless I've missed something there seems to be an inconsistency here. If there isn't an answer, what will we do with this for the current elections? I guess ElectCom would decide. Obviously having this sorted before the election closes is a good idea. <a href="/wiki/User:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User:Dreamy Jazz">Dreamy Jazz</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User talk:Dreamy Jazz">talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dreamy_Jazz" title="Special:Contributions/Dreamy Jazz">my contributions</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Dreamy_Jazz-2020-11-25T23:48:00.000Z-Voter_eligibility" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:48, 25 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I can see a case for allowing partially blocked users to vote, as if this was a vote like RfA their partial block is unlikely to extend to the RfA page (or similar) so it makes sense to allow them to vote. <a href="/wiki/User:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User:Dreamy Jazz">Dreamy Jazz</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User talk:Dreamy Jazz">talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dreamy_Jazz" title="Special:Contributions/Dreamy Jazz">my contributions</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Dreamy_Jazz-2020-11-25T23:49:00.000Z-Dreamy_Jazz-2020-11-25T23:48:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:49, 25 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/User:Cyberpower678" title="User:Cyberpower678">Cyberpower678</a>, any idea what happened here? Looks like Mr Hall is on the SecurePoll list but not on any of the MMS lists and I'm wondering if something about them being pblocked caused this discrepancy. <a href="/wiki/User:GeneralNotability" title="User:GeneralNotability">GeneralNotability</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:GeneralNotability" title="User talk:GeneralNotability">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-GeneralNotability-2020-11-26T00:06:00.000Z-Dreamy_Jazz-2020-11-25T23:49:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:06, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:GeneralNotability" title="User:GeneralNotability">GeneralNotability</a>: the massmessage list is a subset of the voter rolls and specifically excludes editors that are blocked beyond the length of the election; the actual eligibility list does not exclude blocked users as this is enforced by SecurePoll (and so the rolls don't have to be changed if someone is unblocked or subsequently blocked). — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Xaosflux-2020-11-26T00:42:00.000Z-GeneralNotability-2020-11-26T00:06:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:42, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>And as for "should partially blocked users" have been mass messaged (see a bit more on this in the EC question below)? I'd say no, and perhaps revisit next year? — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Xaosflux-2020-11-26T00:49:00.000Z-Xaosflux-2020-11-26T00:42:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:49, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/User:GeneralNotability" title="User:GeneralNotability">GeneralNotability</a>, yep. That's what happened. Apparently being pblocked, shows as a full block in the DB. MMS lists are more restrictive than SecurePoll since SecurePoll has it's own filtering functions in place. MMS lists are generally produced for those that are uncontroversially eligible to vote. —<a href="/wiki/User:Cyberpower678" title="User:Cyberpower678">CYBERPOWER</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Cyberpower678" title="User talk:Cyberpower678">Happy Thanksgiving</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Cyberpower678-2020-11-26T13:53:00.000Z-GeneralNotability-2020-11-26T00:06:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:53, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>feel free to move this discussion to another talk page if this isn't the best place <a href="/wiki/User:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User:Dreamy Jazz">Dreamy Jazz</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User talk:Dreamy Jazz">talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dreamy_Jazz" title="Special:Contributions/Dreamy Jazz">my contributions</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Dreamy_Jazz-2020-11-26T00:13:00.000Z-Dreamy_Jazz-2020-11-25T23:48:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:13, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="SecurePoll_option?" data-mw-thread-id="h-SecurePoll_option?-Voter_eligibility-2020-11-26T00:38:00.000Z">SecurePoll option?</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: SecurePoll option?">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1227084136">.mw-parser-output .tracked{float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 1em 1em;width:12em;border:1px solid #72777d;border-radius:2px;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive,#EAECF0);color:var(--color-base,#202122);font-size:85%;text-align:center;padding:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .tracked-url{font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .tracked-closure{color:black;font-weight:bold;text-transform:uppercase}.mw-parser-output .tracked-resolved{color:green}</style><div role="note" class="tracked plainlinks mw-trackedTemplate">Tracked in <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/" class="extiw" title="phabricator:">Phabricator</a> <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268800" class="extiw" title="phabricator:T268800"> Task T268800</a> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235781174"><div role="note" class="hmbox-outer resolved"><div class="hmbox-inner"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/20px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/40px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600"/> Resolved</div> – result of code review and testing: SecurePoll's "prevent blocked user" includes any type of block. — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Xaosflux-2020-11-26T02:32:00.000Z-SecurePoll_option?" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:32, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</div> <ul><li>@<a href="/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)" title="User:JSutherland (WMF)">JSutherland (WMF)</a>: this SecurePoll is configured with <code>not-blocked:"1"</code> -- from a software perspective, does this enforce the restriction if any blocks of any type are in place, only a "site wide editing block", or something else? — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Xaosflux-2020-11-26T00:38:00.000Z-Xaosflux-2020-11-26T02:32:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:38, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I tried to test this on testwiki, however <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180762" class="extiw" title="phab:T180762">phab:T180762</a> seems to be blocking updating the poll restrictions (and has been for three years!). — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Xaosflux-2020-11-26T00:38:00.000Z-Xaosflux-2020-11-26T00:38:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:38, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I'm not sure how partial blocks are treated in the database, so it's possible? <a href="/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)" title="User:JSutherland (WMF)">Joe Sutherland (WMF)</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:JSutherland_(WMF)" title="User talk:JSutherland (WMF)">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-JSutherland_(WMF)-2020-11-26T00:56:00.000Z-Xaosflux-2020-11-26T00:38:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:56, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>The code on github for checking if the user is blocked checks is whether <code>$user->isBlocked()</code> is true. <a href="/wiki/User:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User:Dreamy Jazz">Dreamy Jazz</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User talk:Dreamy Jazz">talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dreamy_Jazz" title="Special:Contributions/Dreamy Jazz">my contributions</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Dreamy_Jazz-2020-11-26T01:10:00.000Z-JSutherland_(WMF)-2020-11-26T00:56:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:10, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User:Dreamy Jazz">Dreamy Jazz</a>: Do you know if that returns true if an editor is partially blocked? <a href="/wiki/User:Mz7" title="User:Mz7">Mz7</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Mz7" title="User talk:Mz7">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Mz7-2020-11-26T01:13:00.000Z-Dreamy_Jazz-2020-11-26T01:10:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:13, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Not sure. I'm trying to navigate the code. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-SecurePoll/blob/2223006c391396976cd50e463d92df5e0a14886d/includes/User/LocalAuth.php#L27">https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-SecurePoll/blob/2223006c391396976cd50e463d92df5e0a14886d/includes/User/LocalAuth.php#L27</a> is where I am at now. Trying to find how the user object is got. <a href="/wiki/User:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User:Dreamy Jazz">Dreamy Jazz</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User talk:Dreamy Jazz">talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dreamy_Jazz" title="Special:Contributions/Dreamy Jazz">my contributions</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Dreamy_Jazz-2020-11-26T01:14:00.000Z-Mz7-2020-11-26T01:13:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:14, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Hmm, I'm half-minded to partially block myself and then try to vote again to see if it works. <a href="/wiki/User:Mz7" title="User:Mz7">Mz7</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Mz7" title="User talk:Mz7">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Mz7-2020-11-26T01:16:00.000Z-Dreamy_Jazz-2020-11-26T01:14:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:16, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Going further it looks like it calls <a class="external text" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki/browse/master/includes/user/User.php$1564">https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki/browse/master/includes/user/User.php$1564</a>. And further it references getUserBlock <a class="external text" href="https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/classMediaWiki_1_1Block_1_1BlockManager.html#a8877ec0c6f308920f2c0c27761fb0bd0">https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/classMediaWiki_1_1Block_1_1BlockManager.html#a8877ec0c6f308920f2c0c27761fb0bd0</a> <a href="/wiki/User:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User:Dreamy Jazz">Dreamy Jazz</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User talk:Dreamy Jazz">talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dreamy_Jazz" title="Special:Contributions/Dreamy Jazz">my contributions</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Dreamy_Jazz-2020-11-26T01:21:00.000Z-Mz7-2020-11-26T01:16:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:21, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>From my understanding, partial blocks are treated as a block by the isBlocked function. This is because the <a class="external text" href="https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/classMediaWiki_1_1Block_1_1DatabaseBlock.html#a2944dd7c4d3110bd5269d14b6a745f9f">newListFromTarget</a> (which calls <a class="external text" href="https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/classMediaWiki_1_1Block_1_1DatabaseBlock.html#a6fe3914537e1cde324df57274d39a083">newLoad</a>) function selects blocks from the ipblocks table. This also stores partial blocks per the schema. The function doesn't seem to filter out partial blocks, so it will return the block to <a class="external text" href="https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/classMediaWiki_1_1Block_1_1BlockManager.html#a8877ec0c6f308920f2c0c27761fb0bd0">getUserBlock</a> which returns up the tree. Therefore, my understanding from the source code is that if you are partially blocked you are unable to vote. <a href="/wiki/User:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User:Dreamy Jazz">Dreamy Jazz</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User talk:Dreamy Jazz">talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dreamy_Jazz" title="Special:Contributions/Dreamy Jazz">my contributions</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Dreamy_Jazz-2020-11-26T01:34:00.000Z-Dreamy_Jazz-2020-11-26T01:21:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:34, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/User:Mz7" title="User:Mz7">Mz7</a>, ping for the above. <a href="/wiki/User:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User:Dreamy Jazz">Dreamy Jazz</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User talk:Dreamy Jazz">talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dreamy_Jazz" title="Special:Contributions/Dreamy Jazz">my contributions</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Dreamy_Jazz-2020-11-26T01:37:00.000Z-Dreamy_Jazz-2020-11-26T01:34:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:37, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Certainly it might be worth a test. Perhaps a already partially blocked user could be asked to try to vote. <a href="/wiki/User:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User:Dreamy Jazz">Dreamy Jazz</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User talk:Dreamy Jazz">talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dreamy_Jazz" title="Special:Contributions/Dreamy Jazz">my contributions</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Dreamy_Jazz-2020-11-26T01:42:00.000Z-Dreamy_Jazz-2020-11-26T01:37:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:42, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></li> <li><div class="outdent-template" style="position:relative;left:1px;"></div>Depending on where the election commission falls on partial blocks as a barrier to suffrage, and assuming you are correct in thinking that a partial block is being treated as a regular block by the software, we have two options: Set <code>not-blocked</code> to 0 (i.e., disable votewiki's automatic check for a local block at the time of voting, which would vastly increase workload for scrutineers) or add people to the <s>exemption</s> override list on demand, which would increase overhead for commissioners or the Foundation (me). I think the latter option is probably the safest. <a href="/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)" title="User:JSutherland (WMF)">Joe Sutherland (WMF)</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:JSutherland_(WMF)" title="User talk:JSutherland (WMF)">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-JSutherland_(WMF)-2020-11-26T01:42:00.000Z-Xaosflux-2020-11-26T02:32:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:42, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>A double check of the source code leads to me to be fairly confident that partial blocks are treated as blocks by the secure poll extension. If a user is happy to volunteer to vote who is already partially blocked that would be great, but failing that perhaps a willing volunteer would be happy to be partially blocked for the purposes of a test. I'm heading off for the night, so I'll leave it to other users here (unless it's unresolved by tomorrow). <a href="/wiki/User:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User:Dreamy Jazz">Dreamy Jazz</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User talk:Dreamy Jazz">talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dreamy_Jazz" title="Special:Contributions/Dreamy Jazz">my contributions</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Dreamy_Jazz-2020-11-26T01:55:00.000Z-JSutherland_(WMF)-2020-11-26T01:42:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:55, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Sounds fun, I'll do it. — <a href="/wiki/User:Wugapodes" title="User:Wugapodes">Wug·</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Wugapodes" title="User talk:Wugapodes">a·po·des</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Wugapodes-2020-11-26T02:11:00.000Z-Dreamy_Jazz-2020-11-26T01:55:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:11, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Can confirm, p-blocked users cannot access SecurePoll server. I receive the message "Sorry, you cannot vote in this election if you are currently blocked from editing." — <a href="/wiki/User:Wugapodes" title="User:Wugapodes">Wug·</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Wugapodes" title="User talk:Wugapodes">a·po·des</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Wugapodes-2020-11-26T02:14:00.000Z-Wugapodes-2020-11-26T02:11:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:14, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Thank you for being the proverbial lamb. :) I have filed <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268800" class="extiw" title="phab:T268800">phab:T268800</a>. <a href="/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)" title="User:JSutherland (WMF)">Joe Sutherland (WMF)</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:JSutherland_(WMF)" title="User talk:JSutherland (WMF)">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-JSutherland_(WMF)-2020-11-26T03:22:00.000Z-Wugapodes-2020-11-26T02:14:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:22, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="ElecCom_question" data-mw-thread-id="h-ElecCom_question-Voter_eligibility-2020-11-26T00:47:00.000Z">ElecCom question</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: ElecCom question">edit</a>]</div> Hi @<a href="/wiki/User:GeneralNotability" title="User:GeneralNotability">GeneralNotability</a>, <a href="/wiki/User:Mz7" title="User:Mz7">Mz7</a>, and <a href="/wiki/User:SQL" title="User:SQL">SQL</a>: looks like we may need a ruling here; the voter requirement from prior RfC's is <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">not currently blocked at the time of voting</q>. Is an editor with a "partial block" considered "currently blocked" for this rule? I'd think that yes they are, unless you want to get in very specifics of what partially blocked means (e.g. you can be partially blocked from editing all namespaces except one... but you can also be partially blocked against only editing one page...). — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Xaosflux-2020-11-26T00:47:00.000Z-ElecCom_question" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:47, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">Xaosflux</a>, this is not a final decision yet, but my intuition is actually the opposite. From a certain view, partial blocks aren't all that different from <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:TBAN" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:TBAN">topic bans</a>, and we allow topic-banned editors to vote. We're still trying to figure out if partially blocked editors are currently technically able to vote, so let's wait until we confirm that. <a href="/wiki/User:Mz7" title="User:Mz7">Mz7</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Mz7" title="User talk:Mz7">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Mz7-2020-11-26T01:23:00.000Z-Xaosflux-2020-11-26T00:47:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:23, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>So we've confirmed above that pblocks prevent voting in the election. While I don't think we have many pblocked editors who would vote, as a matter of principle I agree with Mz7 - I do not believe that a pbock should prevent voting. I think we will need two things going forward - we'll want to get this on the list for ACE2021 regardless of our final decision here, and we'll also probably want a phab ticket opened to make this setting configurable. <a href="/wiki/User:GeneralNotability" title="User:GeneralNotability">GeneralNotability</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:GeneralNotability" title="User talk:GeneralNotability">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-GeneralNotability-2020-11-26T02:25:00.000Z-Mz7-2020-11-26T01:23:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:25, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:GeneralNotability" title="User:GeneralNotability">GeneralNotability</a>: See <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268800" class="extiw" title="phab:T268800">phab:T268800</a>. <a href="/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)" title="User:JSutherland (WMF)">Joe Sutherland (WMF)</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:JSutherland_(WMF)" title="User talk:JSutherland (WMF)">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-JSutherland_(WMF)-2020-11-26T03:23:00.000Z-GeneralNotability-2020-11-26T02:25:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:23, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>Thanks for the early notes - 100% agree it should be on next year's RfC (added to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_comment/Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021#blocked_/_pblocked_users" title="Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021">list</a>). I suggest these are at the least taken case-by-case along <a href="/wiki/User:Mz7" title="User:Mz7">Mz7</a> reasoning -- if the p-block appears to be of the sort that it is enforcing a restriction that could be like a t-ban then override; if it is for some sort of general behavioral reason perhaps not? — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Xaosflux-2020-11-26T02:36:00.000Z-Xaosflux-2020-11-26T00:47:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:36, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl> <ul><li>I'd just drop my $0.02, that I can't see any partial ban be grounds for restricting voting. As far as I know we don't have any TBANs that warrant removal of suffrage, and so neither should partial bans. I'd also suggest any ultimate decision on this be pushed fairly broadly, as I suspect partially banned editors are less likely than the average arbcom voter to know where to go to request whitelisting <a href="/wiki/User:Nosebagbear" title="User:Nosebagbear">Nosebagbear</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Nosebagbear" title="User talk:Nosebagbear">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Nosebagbear-2020-11-26T08:08:00.000Z-Xaosflux-2020-11-26T00:47:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">08:08, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>So how should we go about it? Would it be to just whitelist everyone with a partial block? Would we set the server to allow blocked voting and just give scrutineers a list of votes from site blocked users to throw out? I'm already planning on compiling a list of sockblocks for scrutineers, but I'm not sure which route would be easiest since partial blocked users can't access the server under the current configuration. — <a href="/wiki/User:Wugapodes" title="User:Wugapodes">Wug·</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Wugapodes" title="User talk:Wugapodes">a·po·des</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Wugapodes-2020-11-26T21:36:00.000Z-Nosebagbear-2020-11-26T08:08:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:36, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></li> <li>Sorry for the delay in responding; today is a holiday in the US, so not a lot of free time. The other electoral commissioners and I discussed this last night, and we all seemed to agree in principle that partially blocked users should not be forbidden from voting because they are partially blocked. As far as a way forward, we think the best idea is probably to have any partially blocked editor that wishes to vote ask to be put on the override list. I believe it is possible to query the database and generate a list of eligible voters that are partially blocked, but at this time, it seems that may require a nontrivial amount of technical work. I know this is not an ideal solution because most partially blocked users are editors who are unlikely to know where to ask, but the technical limitations of the election software seem to make this a challenge. <a href="/wiki/User:Mz7" title="User:Mz7">Mz7</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Mz7" title="User talk:Mz7">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Mz7-2020-11-26T22:22:00.000Z-Xaosflux-2020-11-26T00:47:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:22, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <ul><li>It seems like <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BlockList?wpTarget=&wpOptions%5B%5D=addressblocks&wpOptions%5B%5D=rangeblocks&blockType=partial&limit=500&wpFormIdentifier=blocklist">this query</a> lists all accounts with partial blocks? <a href="/wiki/User:L235" title="User:L235">KevinL</a> (aka <a href="/wiki/User:L235" title="User:L235">L235</a> · <a href="/wiki/User_talk:L235#top" title="User talk:L235">t</a> · <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/L235" title="Special:Contributions/L235">c</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-L235-2020-11-26T22:32:00.000Z-Mz7-2020-11-26T22:22:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:32, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <ul><li>I've got some time today, I'll see what I can do with the query from Kevin. If I can get a solid list, I'll send out a mass message to those affected letting them know where to ask. — <a href="/wiki/User:Wugapodes" title="User:Wugapodes">Wug·</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Wugapodes" title="User talk:Wugapodes">a·po·des</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Wugapodes-2020-11-26T22:40:00.000Z-L235-2020-11-26T22:32:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:40, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <ul><li>I just wrote up a pywikibot program – below are the eligible pblocked users as of two hours ago. There's not all that many of them, but then again there aren't all that many pblocked users to begin with. Best, <a href="/wiki/User:L235" title="User:L235">KevinL</a> (aka <a href="/wiki/User:L235" title="User:L235">L235</a> · <a href="/wiki/User_talk:L235#top" title="User talk:L235">t</a> · <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/L235" title="Special:Contributions/L235">c</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-L235-2020-11-26T23:16:00.000Z-Wugapodes-2020-11-26T22:40:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:16, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1256386598">.mw-parser-output .cot-header-mainspace{background:#F0F2F5;color:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cot-header-other{background:#CCFFCC;color:inherit}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cot-header-mainspace{background:#14181F;color:inherit}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cot-header-other{background:#003500;color:inherit}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cot-header-mainspace{background:#14181F;color:inherit}html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cot-header-other{background:#003500;color:inherit}}</style> <div style="margin-left:0"> <table class="mw-collapsible mw-archivedtalk mw-collapsed" style="color:inherit; background: transparent; text-align: left; border: 1px solid Silver; margin: 0.2em auto auto; width:100%; clear: both; padding: 1px;"> <tbody><tr> <th class="cot-header-other" style="; font-size:87%; padding:0.2em 0.3em; text-align:center;"><div style="font-size:115%;margin:0 4em">Extended content</div> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; border: solid 1px Silver; padding: 0.6em; background: var(--background-color-base, #fff);"> <pre>Roelle Dimalanta NewRuins012 0blcsp ჯეო Vallee01 Mr Hall of England Miguelemejia DilletantiAnonymous Wikieditor19920 JimKaatFan Crystal3003 Joppa Chong Peet2000 Kostas181 Farhanakbar1998 Kiraroshi1976 Dapi89 Dreamofdealers MikaelaArsenault C2A06 Jackson767 Geb11 Leahritterband.MacDowell Jeremykuhl Randam Seguro64 WikiLover4Ever Saynotodrugs12 Chrisvacc Александр Мотин Beyhiveboys Arthur Rubin Saff V. Itsmebeachhh </pre> </td></tr></tbody></table></div> <dl><dd>May be also useful to look at this list and unblock anyone that doesn't actually need to be blocked still.... — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Xaosflux-2020-11-26T23:23:00.000Z-ElecCom_question" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:23, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Yeah, I can look through them to see if the p-blocks are still needed. Since there are so few, it may be easier to just add them to the whitelist rather than having them come request it. — <a href="/wiki/User:Wugapodes" title="User:Wugapodes">Wug·</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Wugapodes" title="User talk:Wugapodes">a·po·des</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Wugapodes-2020-11-26T23:33:00.000Z-Xaosflux-2020-11-26T23:23:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:33, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I went through them all and they look like good blocks. If anything I saw some that I'd rather be site blocks, but I wound up just leaving those alone. — <a href="/wiki/User:Wugapodes" title="User:Wugapodes">Wug·</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Wugapodes" title="User talk:Wugapodes">a·po·des</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Wugapodes-2020-11-27T00:06:00.000Z-Wugapodes-2020-11-26T23:33:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:06, 27 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>Thanks <a href="/wiki/User:L235" title="User:L235">L235</a>! I can manually add in overrides for them now, if <a href="/wiki/User:GeneralNotability" title="User:GeneralNotability">GeneralNotability</a>, <a href="/wiki/User:Mz7" title="User:Mz7">Mz7</a>, and <a href="/wiki/User:SQL" title="User:SQL">SQL</a> want that, or we can do it on request. If it's just 34 users then even if we get 34 requests, it's not a huge lift. But adding them all in advance might be more akin to what people actually want to happen (i.e. not forcing eligible voters to "register" first). The commissioners can certainly let me know either way and I'll accommodate. <a href="/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)" title="User:JSutherland (WMF)">Joe Sutherland (WMF)</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:JSutherland_(WMF)" title="User talk:JSutherland (WMF)">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-JSutherland_(WMF)-2020-11-27T00:22:00.000Z-Xaosflux-2020-11-26T23:23:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:22, 27 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/User:L235" title="User:L235">L235</a>, thank you so much for your help on this! This list is super helpful, and yep, <a href="/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)" title="User:JSutherland (WMF)">JSutherland (WMF)</a>, we agree that adding them all to the override list in advance would be the most natural solution if it's not too much trouble. <abbr title="Smiling face" style="border-bottom: none;"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Face-smile.svg/18px-Face-smile.svg.png" decoding="async" width="18" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Face-smile.svg/27px-Face-smile.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Face-smile.svg/36px-Face-smile.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48"/></abbr> <a href="/wiki/User:Mz7" title="User:Mz7">Mz7</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Mz7" title="User talk:Mz7">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Mz7-2020-11-27T02:03:00.000Z-JSutherland_(WMF)-2020-11-27T00:22:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:03, 27 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:GeneralNotability" title="User:GeneralNotability">GeneralNotability</a>, <a href="/wiki/User:Mz7" title="User:Mz7">Mz7</a>, and <a href="/wiki/User:SQL" title="User:SQL">SQL</a>: Belatedly, this has now been done (with the exception of 0blcsp, whose partial block has expired). Note that if any of the users above are full-blocked, they would still be able to vote through the override, so do let me know if that happens and I can remove them from the override list so they'd be barred from voting like any other blocked user. <a href="/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)" title="User:JSutherland (WMF)">Joe Sutherland (WMF)</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:JSutherland_(WMF)" title="User talk:JSutherland (WMF)">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-JSutherland_(WMF)-2020-11-29T23:48:00.000Z-Mz7-2020-11-27T02:03:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:48, 29 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Thank you for sorting this. <a href="/wiki/User:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User:Dreamy Jazz">Dreamy Jazz</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User talk:Dreamy Jazz">talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dreamy_Jazz" title="Special:Contributions/Dreamy Jazz">my contributions</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Dreamy_Jazz-2020-11-30T00:09:00.000Z-JSutherland_(WMF)-2020-11-29T23:48:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:09, 30 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Did_I_vote?" data-mw-thread-id="h-Did_I_vote?-2020-11-26T09:37:00.000Z">Did I vote?</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Did I vote?">edit</a>]<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> I voted yesterday and got a confirmation message, but I'm not listed as having voted <a class="external text" href="https://vote.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/list/808">here</a>. But when I try to vote again it's recognised that I've already voted. I don't know if I've done something wrong but I'll try and vote again and see what happens. Let me know if I've made an error, because I can't see what it is. <a href="/wiki/User:Deb" title="User:Deb">Deb</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Deb" title="User talk:Deb">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Deb-2020-11-26T09:37:00.000Z-Did_I_vote?" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">09:37, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I can see you there - switch it to 500 per page and you're on the second page. <a href="/wiki/User:Boing!_said_Zebedee" title="User:Boing! said Zebedee">Boing! said Zebedee</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Boing!_said_Zebedee" title="User talk:Boing! said Zebedee">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Boing!_said_Zebedee-2020-11-26T10:14:00.000Z-Deb-2020-11-26T09:37:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">10:14, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>That's weird. I looked at every page and also used the search facility. Ah well, done now. <a href="/wiki/User:Deb" title="User:Deb">Deb</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Deb" title="User talk:Deb">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Deb-2020-11-26T10:17:00.000Z-Boing!_said_Zebedee-2020-11-26T10:14:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">10:17, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Voting_server_Log_in" data-mw-thread-id="h-Voting_server_Log_in-2020-11-26T19:45:00.000Z">Voting server Log in</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Voting server Log in">edit</a>]<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> What is with Voting server Log in ? I was not able to vote as I am unable to Log in, yet the hat-message over there says how Login is actually unnecessary in the first place.--<a href="/wiki/User:Santasa99" title="User:Santasa99">౪ Santa ౪</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Santasa99" title="User talk:Santasa99">99°</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Santasa99-2020-11-26T19:45:00.000Z-Voting_server_Log_in" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:45, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/User:Santasa99" title="User:Santasa99">Santasa99</a>, yeah, the way it works is a little peculiar in that you don’t actually need an account on the voting server to vote. Indeed, only election administrators and scrutineers have accounts on <a class="external free" href="https://vote.wikimedia.org">https://vote.wikimedia.org</a>, and those accounts let them manage the election. However, if you follow the vote link in {{<a href="/wiki/Template:ACE2020" title="Template:ACE2020">ACE2020</a>}} and the mass message we sent while logged in from the English Wikipedia, it should redirect you to the voting server and allow you to vote under your username. <a href="/wiki/User:Mz7" title="User:Mz7">Mz7</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Mz7" title="User talk:Mz7">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Mz7-2020-11-26T20:25:00.000Z-Santasa99-2020-11-26T19:45:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:25, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Thanks <a href="/wiki/User:Mz7" title="User:Mz7">Mz7</a>.--<a href="/wiki/User:Santasa99" title="User:Santasa99">౪ Santa ౪</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Santasa99" title="User talk:Santasa99">99°</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Santasa99-2020-11-26T20:46:00.000Z-Mz7-2020-11-26T20:25:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:46, 26 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Number_of_candidates" data-mw-thread-id="h-Number_of_candidates-2020-11-28T18:38:00.000Z">Number of candidates</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Number of candidates">edit</a>]<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> Hello. In the 2019 election, there were 22 candidates. This year there are 12. Is there any reason for this decrease in numbers? Judging by previous years (2018: 13 and 2017: 12) it seems as if 2019 stands out but I was curious as to why this significant decrease has occurred. Kind regards, <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Willbb234&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Willbb234 (page does not exist)">Willbb234</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Willbb234" title="User talk:Willbb234">Talk</a> (please {{<a href="/wiki/Template:Ping" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Ping">ping</a>}} me in replies) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Willbb234-2020-11-28T18:38:00.000Z-Number_of_candidates" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:38, 28 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Willbb234&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Willbb234 (page does not exist)">Willbb234</a>: a couple of reasons come to mind for me. In 2019, we'd ended up with a massive dearth of arbs, and people were concerned that would happen again, so there was a big block willing to stand. Additionally, while we had a few contentious cases in the first half of the year, it's been a quiet second half. I think fewer perceived issues reduces a feeling that "I better run, if I want it to improve" <a href="/wiki/User:Nosebagbear" title="User:Nosebagbear">Nosebagbear</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Nosebagbear" title="User talk:Nosebagbear">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Nosebagbear-2020-11-28T20:06:00.000Z-Willbb234-2020-11-28T18:38:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:06, 28 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Thank you, <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Willbb234&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Willbb234 (page does not exist)">Willbb234</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Willbb234" title="User talk:Willbb234">Talk</a> (please {{<a href="/wiki/Template:Ping" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Ping">ping</a>}} me in replies) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Willbb234-2020-11-30T16:36:00.000Z-Nosebagbear-2020-11-28T20:06:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:36, 30 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Withdrawal" data-mw-thread-id="h-Withdrawal-2020-11-29T12:01:00.000Z">Withdrawal</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Withdrawal">edit</a>]<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> I posted this on the coordinator page, but <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020/Coordination&diff=991312913&oldid=991290763">linking here</a> that I’ve withdrawn. <a href="/wiki/User:TonyBallioni" title="User:TonyBallioni">TonyBallioni</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:TonyBallioni" title="User talk:TonyBallioni">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-TonyBallioni-2020-11-29T12:01:00.000Z-Withdrawal" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">12:01, 29 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Multiple_votes_by_a_user" data-mw-thread-id="h-Multiple_votes_by_a_user-2020-11-29T12:16:00.000Z">Multiple votes by a user</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Multiple votes by a user">edit</a>]<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> How come <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Techie3">Techie3</a> has voted 5 times but only one has been struck? Is this a bug in the system? <a href="/wiki/User:Kudpung" title="User:Kudpung">Kudpung กุดผึ้ง</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Kudpung" title="User talk:Kudpung">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Kudpung-2020-11-29T12:16:00.000Z-Multiple_votes_by_a_user" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">12:16, 29 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Their previous votes are either struck or greyed out for me. That suggests to me that their 4 previous votes are at least now not being counted. <a href="/wiki/User:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User:Dreamy Jazz">Dreamy Jazz</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User talk:Dreamy Jazz">talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dreamy_Jazz" title="Special:Contributions/Dreamy Jazz">my contributions</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Dreamy_Jazz-2020-11-29T13:15:00.000Z-Kudpung-2020-11-29T12:16:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:15, 29 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:Kudpung" title="User:Kudpung">Kudpung</a>: "greyed out" votes indicate they are being discarded due to re-vote. I'm not sure why so many greyed-out's are actually "struck" right now - this is normally a manual action by the scrutineers or staff - perhaps @<a href="/wiki/User:JSutherland_(WMF)" title="User:JSutherland (WMF)">JSutherland (WMF)</a>: can clarify if the software changed or if someone is manually (and unnecessarily) striking out votes that have already been replaced. — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Xaosflux-2020-11-29T13:57:00.000Z-Dreamy_Jazz-2020-11-29T13:15:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:57, 29 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:Kudpung" title="User:Kudpung">Kudpung</a>, <a href="/wiki/User:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User:Dreamy Jazz">Dreamy Jazz</a>, and <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">Xaosflux</a>: as Xaosflux said, "greyed out" votes indicate they are discarded due to it being a previous vote. However, @<a href="/wiki/User:Mardetanha" title="User:Mardetanha">Mardetanha</a>: said that on previous elections the scrutineers also struck those, so they are also being struck manually by the scrutineers. The duplicate votes not being struck simply indicate no one had seen them yet (I was sleeping, for instance). Best, —<a href="/wiki/User:Tks4Fish" title="User:Tks4Fish">Thanks for the fish!</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Tks4Fish" title="User talk:Tks4Fish">talk</a>•<a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Tks4Fish" title="Special:Contributions/Tks4Fish">contribs</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Tks4Fish-2020-11-29T14:12:00.000Z-Xaosflux-2020-11-29T13:57:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:12, 29 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/User:Tks4fish" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Tks4fish">Tks4fish</a>, you're not allowed to sleep during scrutineering! I'm cutting your pay for this. <a href="/wiki/User:GeneralNotability" title="User:GeneralNotability">GeneralNotability</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:GeneralNotability" title="User talk:GeneralNotability">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-GeneralNotability-2020-11-29T14:14:00.000Z-Tks4Fish-2020-11-29T14:12:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:14, 29 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:Tks4Fish" title="User:Tks4Fish">Tks4Fish</a>: thank for the note - that process seems to be at least inconsistent with the enwiki 2019 election <a class="external text" href="https://vote.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/list/759">see log</a> and shouldn't be technically unnecessary, though it will certainly not change the result of the poll. Maybe it just makes the list of votes easier to scrutineer since it is easier to visualize the strikeout than greyout. This also is not listed on the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020/Coordination/Instructions_for_scrutineers" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2020/Coordination/Instructions for scrutineers">Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2020/Coordination/Instructions for scrutineers</a>, can this workflow be further explained so it may be documented there to prevent this confusion in the future? — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Xaosflux-2020-11-29T14:25:00.000Z-Tks4Fish-2020-11-29T14:12:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">14:25, 29 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>To be fair I don't really know how to explain it, as it's my first election as a scrutineer. Mard said that, and I'm following heh. I think he'd be the suitable one to explain here. I do agree that it makes it easier to scrutineer, as the contrast between grey/background and grey/black is a bit too low in my opinion. Best, —<a href="/wiki/User:Tks4Fish" title="User:Tks4Fish">Thanks for the fish!</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Tks4Fish" title="User talk:Tks4Fish">talk</a>•<a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Tks4Fish" title="Special:Contributions/Tks4Fish">contribs</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Tks4Fish-2020-11-29T15:06:00.000Z-Xaosflux-2020-11-29T14:25:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:06, 29 November 2020 (UTC)</a>|[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Well, we also have our own internal documentations anyway so that might use some updates as well. — regards, <a href="/wiki/User:-revi" class="mw-redirect" title="User:-revi">Revi</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c--revi-2020-12-04T13:32:00.000Z-Xaosflux-2020-11-29T14:25:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:32, 4 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">Xaosflux</a>: I didn't quiet get what you mean by """and shouldn't be technically unnecessary """ does it mean it is not necessary or does it mean it is necessary but anyhow we used to strike out double, triple, quadruple, quintuple votes to make sure everyone voted only once, I had prior disucsction with Martin and he said with current software it is not really necessary but I as I don't trust software as much as him, I still strike them out manually to make sure everyone got to vote only once <a href="/wiki/User:Mardetanha" title="User:Mardetanha">Mardetanha</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Mardetanha" title="User talk:Mardetanha">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Mardetanha-2020-11-29T15:20:00.000Z-Xaosflux-2020-11-29T13:57:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:20, 29 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:Mardetanha" title="User:Mardetanha">Mardetanha</a>: Please correct me if I'm wrong, but SecurePoll only counts votes that are recorded, that are not the most recent of a revote, and that are not stricken. So striking a vote that is already greyed out should have no affect on the results - thus not necessary. Notice the <a class="external text" href="https://vote.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/list/759">2019 list</a> where <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1248585704"><q class="inline-quote-talk">A total of 1,783 votes have been cast. Of these, 88 are thrown away because the voter has voted again, and 23 are struck.</q> - striking of the throw aways isn't necessary. If this helps the scrutineers do their job better, its not really a problem - but we should update the instructions so that the process can be consistent and explainable. — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Xaosflux-2020-11-29T16:10:00.000Z-Mardetanha-2020-11-29T15:20:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:10, 29 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Thanks, it was practice that we had in past years, and I think it helps scrutineers to check votes better and as you put do their job better, updating instruction is great idea <a href="/wiki/User:Mardetanha" title="User:Mardetanha">Mardetanha</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Mardetanha" title="User talk:Mardetanha">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Mardetanha-2020-11-29T16:13:00.000Z-Mardetanha-2020-11-29T15:20:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:13, 29 November 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="What_is_the_delay?" data-mw-thread-id="h-What_is_the_delay?-2020-12-08T20:18:00.000Z">What is the delay?</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: What is the delay?">edit</a>]<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> Someone was going to do it eventually. If not now, when? If not me, who? --<a href="/wiki/User:Floquenbeam" title="User:Floquenbeam">Floquenbeam</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Floquenbeam" title="User talk:Floquenbeam">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Floquenbeam-2020-12-08T20:18:00.000Z-What_is_the_delay?" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:18, 8 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Scrutineers are scrutinizing the inscrutable scrutiny. <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Scottywong" title="User talk:Scottywong"> —⁠ScottyWong⁠— </a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Scottywong-2020-12-08T20:36:00.000Z-Floquenbeam-2020-12-08T20:18:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:36, 8 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>...scrupulously scrutinizing for the unscrupulous? --20:44, 8 December 2020 (UTC) <dl><dd>I notice that <a href="/wiki/User:Floquenbeam" title="User:Floquenbeam">Floquenbeam</a> was trying to avoid (perhaps unscrupulously?) being scrutinized by only dating and not signing with his username the comment above. Hmmm.... Best, <a href="/wiki/User:Barkeep49" title="User:Barkeep49">Barkeep49</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Barkeep49" title="User talk:Barkeep49">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Barkeep49-2020-12-08T20:48:00.000Z-Scottywong-2020-12-08T20:36:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:48, 8 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>How excruciatingly unscrupulous. <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Scottywong" title="User talk:Scottywong"> —⁠ScottyWong⁠— </a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Scottywong-2020-12-08T20:50:00.000Z-Barkeep49-2020-12-08T20:48:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:50, 8 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:Barkeep49" title="User:Barkeep49">Barkeep49</a>:, you'd have made a good scrutineer. --<a href="/wiki/User:Floquenbeam" title="User:Floquenbeam">Floquenbeam</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Floquenbeam" title="User talk:Floquenbeam">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Floquenbeam-2020-12-08T20:54:00.000Z-Barkeep49-2020-12-08T20:48:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:54, 8 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>The scrutineers are still doing their scrutineering. As I understand it, they can't really do it in advance of the vote closing (you can't clear a vote as "not made by a sock" until no more votes are coming into the system, since a future vote might be a sock). <a href="/wiki/User:GeneralNotability" title="User:GeneralNotability">GeneralNotability</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:GeneralNotability" title="User talk:GeneralNotability">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-GeneralNotability-2020-12-08T20:37:00.000Z-Floquenbeam-2020-12-08T20:18:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:37, 8 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><dl><dd>[Bishonen has a coughing fit] <a href="/wiki/User:GeneralNotability" title="User:GeneralNotability">GeneralNotability</a>, do you mind? Bishzilla and Darwinbish are actually extremely independent voters! <a href="/wiki/User:Bishonen" title="User:Bishonen">Bishonen</a> | <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Bishonen" title="User talk:Bishonen">tålk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Bishonen-2020-12-08T21:28:00.000Z-GeneralNotability-2020-12-08T20:37:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:28, 8 December 2020 (UTC)</a>.[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd>This question gets asked every year. Perhaps it should be added to the Election Guide. <a href="/wiki/User:Hawkeye7" title="User:Hawkeye7">Hawkeye7</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Hawkeye7" title="User talk:Hawkeye7">(discuss)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Hawkeye7-2020-12-08T20:43:00.000Z-GeneralNotability-2020-12-08T20:37:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:43, 8 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Good idea. I moved a couple sentences and added a few words of my own to <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:5-minute_guide_to_ArbCom_elections&diff=993108751&oldid=992532423">create</a> a results section. Best, <a href="/wiki/User:Barkeep49" title="User:Barkeep49">Barkeep49</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Barkeep49" title="User talk:Barkeep49">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Barkeep49-2020-12-08T20:54:00.000Z-Hawkeye7-2020-12-08T20:43:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:54, 8 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Yeah, couple of weeks seems about right. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2019" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2019">Last year</a> voting closed on Dec 2, and the results were certified on Dec 14.-- <a href="/wiki/User:Pawnkingthree" title="User:Pawnkingthree">P-K3</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Pawnkingthree" title="User talk:Pawnkingthree">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Pawnkingthree-2020-12-08T20:56:00.000Z-Barkeep49-2020-12-08T20:54:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:56, 8 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Oh goody, this year that's the date the presidential electors will meet in the US meet. Maybe Trump will tweet about the obvious fraud going on here. And anyway, I've <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/?oldid=993006132">already announced</a> that I won the election in a landslide. I'm accepting donations to underwrite my personal attorney <a href="/wiki/User:Levivich" title="User:Levivich">Levivich</a>'s various lawsuits to combat the scrutineers' hoax. <a href="/wiki/User:EEng#s" title="User:EEng">E</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:EEng#s" title="User talk:EEng">Eng</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-EEng-2020-12-09T01:02:00.000Z-Pawnkingthree-2020-12-08T20:56:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">01:02, 9 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd>zOMG <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:INVOLVED" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:INVOLVED">WP:INVOLVED</a>. --<a href="/wiki/User:Floquenbeam" title="User:Floquenbeam">Floquenbeam</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Floquenbeam" title="User talk:Floquenbeam">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Floquenbeam-2020-12-08T20:57:00.000Z-Barkeep49-2020-12-08T20:54:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:57, 8 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Sounds like scrutineering is a mind-numbingly manual process, if it takes that long to complete. Surely there should be some way to automate some parts of it to look for obvious similarities between voters and such, no? <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Scottywong" title="User talk:Scottywong"> —⁠ScottyWong⁠— </a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Scottywong-2020-12-08T20:58:00.000Z-Floquenbeam-2020-12-08T20:57:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:58, 8 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/User:Hawkeye7" title="User:Hawkeye7">Hawkeye7</a>, it likely should also be put into a template that gets automatically transcluded about three days after voting closes. No need to rely on fickle humans like <a href="/wiki/User:Floquenbeam" title="User:Floquenbeam">Floquenbeam</a> to do it manually that way. <a href="/wiki/User:Perryprog" title="User:Perryprog">Perryprog</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Perryprog" title="User talk:Perryprog">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Perryprog-2020-12-08T21:51:00.000Z-Hawkeye7-2020-12-08T20:43:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:51, 8 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>The WMF anti-harassment team is going to be spending some time working on the SecurePoll extension before the next board elections, hopefully whatever improvements they make also make scrutineering easier (cc @<a href="/wiki/User:NKohli_(WMF)" title="User:NKohli (WMF)">NKohli (WMF)</a>) - normally, I would offer to make a script to simplify things, but unfortunately that isn't really an option here since only the scrutineers can see the relevant details that the script would process <a href="/wiki/User:DannyS712" title="User:DannyS712">DannyS712</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:DannyS712" title="User talk:DannyS712">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-DannyS712-2020-12-09T02:19:00.000Z-Floquenbeam-2020-12-08T20:18:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:19, 9 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl> <ul><li>Last year, there was a pretty outrageous sockpuppetry case that came out when scrutinizing ArbCom votes. And if you look at election results from other years, there are always some vote irregularities, duplicate votes, disqualified votes. I understand that candidates might be anxious, but scrutinizers should take their time. <a href="/wiki/User:Liz" title="User:Liz">Liz</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Liz" title="Special:Contributions/Liz">Read!</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Liz" title="User talk:Liz">Talk!</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Liz-2020-12-09T02:24:00.000Z-Floquenbeam-2020-12-08T20:18:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:24, 9 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li></ul> <dl><dd><ul><li>Last year was super fun for me, as at the exact same time as the scrutineering, I was in training for a new job, for which they had deliberately hired more people than they needed, and on the last day of training we would find out if we were actually hired or if we would just get the one paycheck for the training week and sent on our way. Turned out I got both gigs, but man, tense week for ole Beebs over here. <a href="/wiki/User:Beeblebrox" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Beeblebrox">Beeblebrox</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Beeblebrox" class="mw-redirect" title="User talk:Beeblebrox">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Beeblebrox-2020-12-09T02:50:00.000Z-Liz-2020-12-09T02:24:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:50, 9 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li></ul></dd></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020/Coordination/Archive_1#Spoiler_alert" title="Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2020/Coordination/Archive 1">Wikipedia talk:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2020/Coordination/Archive 1#Spoiler alert</a> aka <a href="/wiki/User:-revi/ACE_scrutineering" class="mw-redirect" title="User:-revi/ACE scrutineering">User:-revi/ACE scrutineering</a>. — regards, <a href="/wiki/User:-revi" class="mw-redirect" title="User:-revi">Revi</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c--revi-2020-12-09T21:28:00.000Z-Floquenbeam-2020-12-08T20:18:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:28, 9 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <ul><li>(Working on it, my change of residence happened to coincide with the end of voting so I got delayed a tad) — <a href="/wiki/User:Wugapodes" title="User:Wugapodes">Wug·</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Wugapodes" title="User talk:Wugapodes">a·po·des</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Wugapodes-2020-12-09T23:55:00.000Z--revi-2020-12-09T21:28:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">23:55, 9 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <ul><li>@<a href="/wiki/User:-revi" class="mw-redirect" title="User:-revi">-revi</a>, <a href="/wiki/User:Mardetanha" title="User:Mardetanha">Mardetanha</a>, <a href="/wiki/User:Martin_Urbanec" title="User:Martin Urbanec">Martin Urbanec</a>, and <a href="/wiki/User:Tks4Fish" title="User:Tks4Fish">Tks4Fish</a>: You can find a list of editors blocked for sockpuppetry in the last 30 days at <a href="/wiki/User:Wugapodes/ACE2020/Sock_blocks" title="User:Wugapodes/ACE2020/Sock blocks">User:Wugapodes/ACE2020/Sock blocks</a>. Hopefully it helps speed scrutineering along. — <a href="/wiki/User:Wugapodes" title="User:Wugapodes">Wug·</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Wugapodes" title="User talk:Wugapodes">a·po·des</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Wugapodes-2020-12-10T04:59:00.000Z-Wugapodes-2020-12-09T23:55:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">04:59, 10 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><ul><li>Having cross-referenced the two lists, the only one that voted was Creator-AP, and their vote is already stricken. Best, <a href="/wiki/User:L235" title="User:L235">KevinL</a> (aka <a href="/wiki/User:L235" title="User:L235">L235</a> · <a href="/wiki/User_talk:L235#top" title="User talk:L235">t</a> · <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/L235" title="Special:Contributions/L235">c</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-L235-2020-12-10T19:55:00.000Z-Wugapodes-2020-12-10T04:59:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:55, 10 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</li></ul></dd></dl></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <dl><dd><dl><dd><dl><dd><dl><dd>OMG! That's a hell of a lot of ballot-stuffing. -- <a href="/wiki/User:MelanieN" title="User:MelanieN">MelanieN</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:MelanieN" title="User talk:MelanieN">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-MelanieN-2020-12-10T16:51:00.000Z-Wugapodes-2020-12-10T04:59:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:51, 10 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:MelanieN" title="User:MelanieN">MelanieN</a>: To be clear, I think that's just a list of editors who were blocked for sockpuppetry in the last 30 days and who appear on the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020/Coordination/SecurePoll" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2020/Coordination/SecurePoll">list of eligible voters</a>. I don't think it's been cross-referenced with the <a class="external text" href="https://vote.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/list/808">list of editors who actually voted</a> yet. <a href="/wiki/User:Mz7" title="User:Mz7">Mz7</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Mz7" title="User talk:Mz7">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Mz7-2020-12-10T19:39:00.000Z-MelanieN-2020-12-10T16:51:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:39, 10 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Or, as certain US politicians might say, it's evidence of massive election fraud that needs looking into. (I'm not saying that seriously!) --<a href="/wiki/User:Tryptofish" title="User:Tryptofish">Tryptofish</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Tryptofish" title="User talk:Tryptofish">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Tryptofish-2020-12-10T19:48:00.000Z-Mz7-2020-12-10T19:39:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:48, 10 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>Thanks, @<a href="/wiki/User:Wugapodes" title="User:Wugapodes">Wugapodes</a>:. I've checked and, as Kevin said above, only Creator-AP had voted, and their block was a consequence of the scrutineering that was done. —<a href="/wiki/User:Tks4Fish" title="User:Tks4Fish">Thanks for the fish!</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Tks4Fish" title="User talk:Tks4Fish">talk</a>•<a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Tks4Fish" title="Special:Contributions/Tks4Fish">contribs</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Tks4Fish-2020-12-10T20:32:00.000Z-Wugapodes-2020-12-10T04:59:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:32, 10 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl> To answer everyone that has been asking, revi's comment is on point. This is a fairly tedious task, and not being familiar with the technical nuances of the data involved here makes it worse. We are, however, trying to do this as quickly as possible, and will share the result as soon as we can. Best, —<a href="/wiki/User:Tks4Fish" title="User:Tks4Fish">Thanks for the fish!</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Tks4Fish" title="User talk:Tks4Fish">talk</a>•<a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Tks4Fish" title="Special:Contributions/Tks4Fish">contribs</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Tks4Fish-2020-12-10T20:32:00.000Z-What_is_the_delay?" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:32, 10 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:-revi" class="mw-redirect" title="User:-revi">-revi</a> and <a href="/wiki/User:Tks4Fish" title="User:Tks4Fish">Tks4Fish</a>: I think most people on en.wiki know this, but it occurs to me that maybe the stewards/scrutineers don't. So, to kind of ruin the "joke" but just to be safe: everyone in this thread pretending to ask what is taking so long is kidding. We know it takes a long time. I was mocking the fact that a thread like this seems to pop up a few days after the poll closes every year, so I created one this year less than a day after the poll closed. We're poking fun at the process, not trying actually rush you, or God forbid criticize you. I assume I speak for everyone when I say thanks so much for volunteering to do this for free. --<a href="/wiki/User:Floquenbeam" title="User:Floquenbeam">Floquenbeam</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Floquenbeam" title="User talk:Floquenbeam">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Floquenbeam-2020-12-11T13:44:00.000Z-Tks4Fish-2020-12-10T20:32:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:44, 11 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>What, for free? So that call I got asking me to contribute to the scrutineers' benefit fund might not have been genuine?! <a href="/wiki/User:Boing!_said_Zebedee" title="User:Boing! said Zebedee">Boing! said Zebedee</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Boing!_said_Zebedee" title="User talk:Boing! said Zebedee">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Boing!_said_Zebedee-2020-12-11T13:52:00.000Z-Floquenbeam-2020-12-11T13:44:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:52, 11 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>As a result of that <s>con</s> I mean, fundraising activity, I was able to increase their pay by an order of magnitude. No, two orders of magnitude. They are getting 100x what they got last year. (And the mortgage on my place in the Hamptons got paid for another year) --<a href="/wiki/User:Floquenbeam" title="User:Floquenbeam">Floquenbeam</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Floquenbeam" title="User talk:Floquenbeam">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Floquenbeam-2020-12-11T13:58:00.000Z-Boing!_said_Zebedee-2020-12-11T13:52:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:58, 11 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:Floquenbeam" title="User:Floquenbeam">Floquenbeam</a>: A happy ending after all! Hopefully you can buy your yacht next year --<a href="/wiki/User:In_actu" title="User:In actu">In actu (Guerillero)</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Guerillero" title="User talk:Guerillero">Parlez Moi</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Guerillero-2020-12-11T13:59:00.000Z-Floquenbeam-2020-12-11T13:58:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:59, 11 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>I am well aware of the jokes (thanks for some enwiki admins hanging out with me) but some stewards don't get the jokes, so I was more of trying to save the question "wtf" and answered it for them :P — regards, <a href="/wiki/User:-revi" class="mw-redirect" title="User:-revi">Revi</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c--revi-2020-12-15T12:27:00.000Z-Floquenbeam-2020-12-11T13:44:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">12:27, 15 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl> Can we have <a href="/wiki/Wolf_Blitzer" title="Wolf Blitzer">Wolf Blitzer</a> announce the results? <a href="/wiki/User:GoodDay" title="User:GoodDay">GoodDay</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:GoodDay" title="User talk:GoodDay">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-GoodDay-2020-12-19T03:02:00.000Z-What_is_the_delay?" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">03:02, 19 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Not until after the <a href="/wiki/2020%E2%80%9321_Georgia_United_States_Senate_runoff" class="mw-redirect" title="2020–21 Georgia United States Senate runoff">Georgia runoffs</a>. --<a href="/wiki/User:Tryptofish" title="User:Tryptofish">Tryptofish</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Tryptofish" title="User talk:Tryptofish">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Tryptofish-2020-12-19T19:01:00.000Z-GoodDay-2020-12-19T03:02:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:01, 19 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl> It is now 13 days since close of polls, and we don't yet have a result. Rather than criticise those who are presumably putting a lot of time into this behind the scenes, or making jokes about this v US electoral systems, do we need this level of scrutiny of the results? In a contested political election you don't go for a recount unless one of the losing candidates or their agent requests it. It should be possible to at least run the initial result by the candidates and ask if any of them wants a recount and voter verification. Also this election takes place over several days so it is possible to do voter verification of most voters before the close of polls. It should also be possible to verify a sample of the votes and only verify the rest if you find something troubling in the sample. In any event, this is slow.... <a href="/wiki/User:WereSpielChequers" title="User:WereSpielChequers">Ϣere</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:WereSpielChequers" title="User talk:WereSpielChequers">Spiel</a>Chequers <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-WereSpielChequers-2020-12-20T15:01:00.000Z-What_is_the_delay?" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:01, 20 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><dl><dd><dl><dd>WereSpielChequers, I'll be the first to admit that humor can fall flat in online text, but neither I nor anyone else means any harm in any of it. I'll admit that I, myself, was initially a little puzzled over Floquenbeam's opening post, because it was sufficiently straight-faced that I wasn't quite sure whether he was joking or serious, and it didn't make sense to me if he were serious. But he has since made it clear that he was riffing off posts from previous years, where some users have, in fact, pestered the scrutineers. I don't think that anyone this year is seriously criticizing the process or the people who are working hard to carry the process out. If anyone is criticizing the people doing the work, that should stop. Let's all please be of good cheer, and hope that 2021 is a better year than 2020 has been. --<a href="/wiki/User:Tryptofish" title="User:Tryptofish">Tryptofish</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Tryptofish" title="User talk:Tryptofish">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Tryptofish-2020-12-20T18:57:00.000Z-WereSpielChequers-2020-12-20T15:01:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:57, 20 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>Last year it was 12 days between close of polls and results. 2018, it was 11 days. The current pace is not really that much slower than the previous years. The current system is set up to put verification after voting. You can suggest a change for 2021 at the next RFC but if I understand it correctly, scrutineers can't start before the end of the election because you need complete data to be able to scrutinize it correctly. See also <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_comment/Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#Expedite_scrutinizing" title="Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2020">Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2020#Expedite scrutinizing</a> from last year. Regards <a href="/wiki/User:SoWhy" title="User:SoWhy">So</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:SoWhy" title="User talk:SoWhy">Why</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-SoWhy-2020-12-20T15:19:00.000Z-WereSpielChequers-2020-12-20T15:01:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:19, 20 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Is there a need to rush, besides just wanting to know the results sooner? Terms don't start until January 1st regardless of how fast the results are scrutinized. <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Scottywong" title="User talk:Scottywong"> —⁠ScottyWong⁠— </a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Scottywong-2020-12-20T16:37:00.000Z-SoWhy-2020-12-20T15:19:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:37, 20 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl> I can't believe nobody has blamed this on Sidney Powell/Giuliani yet.<a href="/wiki/User:SPECIFICO" title="User:SPECIFICO"> SPECIFICO</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:SPECIFICO" title="User talk:SPECIFICO"> talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-SPECIFICO-2020-12-20T18:00:00.000Z-What_is_the_delay?" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:00, 20 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Your implicit assertion is probably just yet more Fake News - in fact the WMF is presumably using WP:BLP to censor any attempt to blame it on Powell and Giuliani for fear of having to defend dozens of nonsense cases all the way to SCOTUS <abbr title="Smiling face" style="border-bottom: none;"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Face-smile.svg/18px-Face-smile.svg.png" decoding="async" width="18" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Face-smile.svg/27px-Face-smile.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Face-smile.svg/36px-Face-smile.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48"/></abbr> <a href="/wiki/User:Tlhslobus" title="User:Tlhslobus">Tlhslobus</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Tlhslobus" title="User talk:Tlhslobus">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Tlhslobus-2020-12-20T18:18:00.000Z-SPECIFICO-2020-12-20T18:00:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:18, 20 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>Thanks for the suggestion. I'll be happy to blame Giuliani. And if I knew or cared who Sidney Powell is, I'd blame them too. --<a href="/wiki/User:Tryptofish" title="User:Tryptofish">Tryptofish</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Tryptofish" title="User talk:Tryptofish">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Tryptofish-2020-12-20T19:08:00.000Z-SPECIFICO-2020-12-20T18:00:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:08, 20 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Treading as lightly as possible on Sidney Powell, I'll just refer you to our <a href="/wiki/Sidney_Powell" title="Sidney Powell">Sidney Powell</a> page.<a href="/wiki/User:SPECIFICO" title="User:SPECIFICO"> SPECIFICO</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:SPECIFICO" title="User talk:SPECIFICO"> talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-SPECIFICO-2020-12-20T19:18:00.000Z-Tryptofish-2020-12-20T19:08:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:18, 20 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Thanks, but WP articles are not a reliable source. I agree with you that one should be cautious about treading on other people. --<a href="/wiki/User:Tryptofish" title="User:Tryptofish">Tryptofish</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Tryptofish" title="User talk:Tryptofish">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Tryptofish-2020-12-20T19:31:00.000Z-SPECIFICO-2020-12-20T19:18:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:31, 20 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>^^^<img alt="👍" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Wikipedia_like_SVG.svg/25px-Wikipedia_like_SVG.svg.png" decoding="async" width="25" height="26" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Wikipedia_like_SVG.svg/38px-Wikipedia_like_SVG.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Wikipedia_like_SVG.svg/50px-Wikipedia_like_SVG.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/> Like^^^ <a href="/wiki/User:Ched" title="User:Ched">— Ched</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Ched" title="User talk:Ched">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Ched-2020-12-20T19:59:00.000Z-Tryptofish-2020-12-20T19:31:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:59, 20 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="No_need_to_stutter..." data-mw-thread-id="h-No_need_to_stutter...-2020-12-09T00:26:00.000Z">No need to stutter...</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: No need to stutter...">edit</a>]<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> It's beyond me to figure out how to fix the template, but the page-top notice says that the results will be posted "at at" or "at on" the page where it appears. Perhaps someone from the Redundancy Dept. Dept. who knows where where to make the correction could do so. Thanks thanks. --<a href="/wiki/User:Tryptofish" title="User:Tryptofish">Tryptofish</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Tryptofish" title="User talk:Tryptofish">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Tryptofish-2020-12-09T00:26:00.000Z-No_need_to_stutter..." class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:26, 9 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><dl><dd>Just to clarify and make clear, its called the <a class="external text" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Department_of_Redundancy_Department">'Department of Redundancy Department'.</a> Cheers, <a href="/wiki/User:History_DMZ" title="User:History DMZ">History DMZ</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:History_DMZ" title="User talk:History DMZ">talk</a>)+(<a href="/wiki/Help:Notifications" title="Help:Notifications">ping</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-History_DMZ-2020-12-12T13:28:00.000Z-Tryptofish-2020-12-09T00:26:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:28, 12 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Thank you for both clarifying and making clear. <abbr title="Winking face" style="border-bottom: none;"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Face-wink.svg/18px-Face-wink.svg.png" decoding="async" width="18" height="18" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Face-wink.svg/27px-Face-wink.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Face-wink.svg/36px-Face-wink.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48"/></abbr> --<a href="/wiki/User:Tryptofish" title="User:Tryptofish">Tryptofish</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Tryptofish" title="User talk:Tryptofish">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Tryptofish-2020-12-15T20:10:00.000Z-History_DMZ-2020-12-12T13:28:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:10, 15 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/User:Tryptofish" title="User:Tryptofish">Tryptofish</a>, fixed. It's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December/Header/Switch" title="Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December/Header/Switch">this template</a>. – <a href="/wiki/User:Bradv" title="User:Bradv">bradv</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:Bradv" title="User talk:Bradv">🍁</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Bradv-2020-12-09T00:31:00.000Z-Tryptofish-2020-12-09T00:26:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">00:31, 9 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Thanks! --<a href="/wiki/User:Tryptofish" title="User:Tryptofish">Tryptofish</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Tryptofish" title="User talk:Tryptofish">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Tryptofish-2020-12-09T18:56:00.000Z-Bradv-2020-12-09T00:31:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:56, 9 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="50%_record!?" data-mw-thread-id="h-50%_record!?-2020-12-21T20:13:00.000Z">50% record!?</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: 50% record!?">edit</a>]<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> I went back to 2009, even discarding single "possible joke" candidates - it looks like this is the first year all of the candidates cleared the 50% bar - looks like any pre-screening/guidance/qualifications/etc parameters worked well this time! Congratz to all candidates for setting this record. — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Xaosflux-2020-12-21T20:13:00.000Z-50%_record!?" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:13, 21 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <ul><li>And Barkeep actually got more than 50%, if you count the percentage like normal human beings would :) <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Black_Kite" title="User talk:Black Kite">Black Kite (talk)</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Black_Kite-2020-12-21T21:41:00.000Z-Xaosflux-2020-12-21T20:13:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:41, 21 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <ul><li>Pssshh, normality is overrated and not to be found on Wikipedia! <a href="/wiki/User:Nosebagbear" title="User:Nosebagbear">Nosebagbear</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Nosebagbear" title="User talk:Nosebagbear">talk</a>)</li></ul></li></ul> <dl><dd>We're congratulating ourselves because one candidate was supported by over half the valid votes? That seems worryingly low to me - "neutral" won by a landslide. <a href="/wiki/User:Johnbod" title="User:Johnbod">Johnbod</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Johnbod" title="User talk:Johnbod">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Johnbod-2020-12-22T10:39:00.000Z-Xaosflux-2020-12-21T20:13:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">10:39, 22 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Each voter has a few candidates they'd like to vote for, and maybe one or two they'd rather not see on the arbcom, and are neutral on the rest. Having many neutral votes seems preferable to requiring <a href="/wiki/Donkey_vote" title="Donkey vote">donkey votes</a>. <a href="/wiki/User:Cabayi" title="User:Cabayi">Cabayi</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Cabayi" title="User talk:Cabayi">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Cabayi-2020-12-22T11:04:00.000Z-Johnbod-2020-12-22T10:39:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">11:04, 22 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>There weren't so many more candidates than places, & that there would be drop-outs was pretty predictable, so most people probably voted for everyone they thought could do a decent job - I certainly did. <a href="/wiki/User:Johnbod" title="User:Johnbod">Johnbod</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Johnbod" title="User talk:Johnbod">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Johnbod-2020-12-22T11:09:00.000Z-Cabayi-2020-12-22T11:04:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">11:09, 22 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd>(EC) That's a function of the electoral system used and the number of candidates. Assuming that a lot of voters are voting oppose for candidates they don't think are suitable, support for the ones they want to win, and neutral for qualified candidates they think are surplus, then it is reasonable to treat neutral as at least not an oppose. If there had been a couple of "joke" candidates then the election wouldn't look much different, but a couple of qulaified candidates would have spread the supports out more thinly. <a href="/wiki/User:WereSpielChequers" title="User:WereSpielChequers">Ϣere</a><a href="/wiki/User_talk:WereSpielChequers" title="User talk:WereSpielChequers">Spiel</a>Chequers <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-WereSpielChequers-2020-12-22T11:27:00.000Z-Johnbod-2020-12-22T10:39:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">11:27, 22 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><dl><dd>I wonder - given the probability of drop-outs, & some candidates one supports inevitably being not generally liked, the only sensible strategy imo is to vote for everyone suitable - there are no "surplus" candidates (with this ratio of seats to candidates anyway). I think many people vote that way. So the low levels of supports means ... low levels of support. <a href="/wiki/User:Johnbod" title="User:Johnbod">Johnbod</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Johnbod" title="User talk:Johnbod">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Johnbod-2020-12-22T13:07:00.000Z-WereSpielChequers-2020-12-22T11:27:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">13:07, 22 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>I (and likely others) only support up to a specific number of candidates and vote neutral on all others I find acceptable to <a href="/wiki/Tactical_voting" class="mw-redirect" title="Tactical voting">better ensure my chosen slate of candidates gets elected</a>. If neutrals were to be considered opposes, I would likely have supported all but one of the candidates. <a href="/wiki/User:Reaper_Eternal" title="User:Reaper Eternal">Reaper Eternal</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Reaper_Eternal" title="User talk:Reaper Eternal">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Reaper_Eternal-2020-12-22T19:10:00.000Z-Johnbod-2020-12-22T10:39:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:10, 22 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>It's a tradeoff: if category A is the candidates you prefer, category B is the candidates you can live with, and category C is candidates you don't want elected, voting for A but not B (instead of A and B) increases the election probability of category A over B, but also increases the election probability of category C over B. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Isaacl-2020-12-22T19:24:00.000Z-Reaper_Eternal-2020-12-22T19:10:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">19:24, 22 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd> <dd>I followed Reaper's tactic here. I would have voted support for the candidates I put as neutral if there were no neutral votes. <a href="/wiki/User:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User:Dreamy Jazz">Dreamy Jazz</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User talk:Dreamy Jazz">talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dreamy_Jazz" title="Special:Contributions/Dreamy Jazz">my contributions</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Dreamy_Jazz-2020-12-22T21:12:00.000Z-Reaper_Eternal-2020-12-22T19:10:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:12, 22 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>And how did that work out for the three of you? <a href="/wiki/User:Johnbod" title="User:Johnbod">Johnbod</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Johnbod" title="User talk:Johnbod">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Johnbod-2020-12-22T21:32:00.000Z-Dreamy_Jazz-2020-12-22T21:12:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:32, 22 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>I'm a 4th, worked out fine for me. The 4 I supported got elected, the 2 I opposed didn't, and the wisdom of the community chose others that I had less of a firm opinion about and so !voted Neutral. I don't tactical vote, since I see no reason why I should try to make my vote could more than average. And I think it's very likely that most of the people who ran could do a more than adequate job, just as I think all previous iterations of the committee have done a pretty good job (even if on occasion, I haven't agreed with their decisions, and on occasion, have felt someone said something really dumb. But I've said dumb things too.) <a href="/wiki/User:Martinp" class="mw-redirect" title="User:Martinp">Martinp</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Martinp" title="User talk:Martinp">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Martinp-2020-12-23T02:25:00.000Z-Johnbod-2020-12-22T21:32:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:25, 23 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Honestly? It worked out quite well. Five of the seven people I supported were elected, and I fully expected one of the two people I supported (<a href="/wiki/User:SMcCandlish" title="User:SMcCandlish">SMcCandlish</a>) to not get elected since the community has a habit of not voting for non-admins. My personal opinion always has been that there should be at least one, preferably two to three, non-admins on Arbcom. The one candidate I opposed did not get elected. Two people I voted neutral on got elected, and I have no serious issues with them—I simply felt another two of the candidates were better suited. I wish all of the new arbiters the best in their new roles. <a href="/wiki/User:Reaper_Eternal" title="User:Reaper Eternal">Reaper Eternal</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Reaper_Eternal" title="User talk:Reaper Eternal">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Reaper_Eternal-2020-12-24T05:04:00.000Z-Martinp-2020-12-23T02:25:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">05:04, 24 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:Reaper_Eternal" title="User:Reaper Eternal">Reaper Eternal</a>: personally, I'd like to see some non-admins on ArbCom - however I won't ever vote support for one while being on ArbCom==lifetime CU&OS. — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Xaosflux-2020-12-24T15:37:00.000Z-Reaper_Eternal-2020-12-24T05:04:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:37, 24 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Well maybe not never - there are always edge cases like Xeno's case last year -- but I wouldn't normally support a non-admin for CU&OS during community consultations for open seats, so would oppose ArbCom as a backdoor to those function for someone I wouldn't support for them already. — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Xaosflux-2020-12-24T15:43:00.000Z-Xaosflux-2020-12-24T15:37:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">15:43, 24 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Just wondering, why is that a problem? There are editors who aren't admins on any project which are on the Ombuds commission with global CUOS, though I guess they're not meant to run checks outside their casework(?). <a href="/wiki/User:ProcrastinatingReader" title="User:ProcrastinatingReader">ProcrastinatingReader</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:ProcrastinatingReader" title="User talk:ProcrastinatingReader">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-ProcrastinatingReader-2020-12-24T16:49:00.000Z-Xaosflux-2020-12-24T15:43:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:49, 24 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>@<a href="/wiki/User:ProcrastinatingReader" title="User:ProcrastinatingReader">ProcrastinatingReader</a>: last I checked there was exactly 1 ombs like that, they are not selected "by the community" (they are selected by WMF) - they are governed by specific use cases - and they are not lifetime appointments. I think the bar to entry to arbcom being as low as 50% support (esp in cases where there is low candidate turnout) is too low for these functions as well, but it is what it is and there isn't enough of the community that cares to take over the governance of the functionaries from the committee. Conversely, I don't think there is too low of a bar to other wise be part of the committee whose core function should be behavioral issue resolutions. — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Xaosflux-2020-12-24T21:01:00.000Z-ProcrastinatingReader-2020-12-24T16:49:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:01, 24 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>Those who I supported, bar SMcCandlish and Guerillero (who I supported but did not get elected), all got elected. <a href="/wiki/User:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User:Dreamy Jazz">Dreamy Jazz</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Dreamy_Jazz" title="User talk:Dreamy Jazz">talk to me</a> | <a href="/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dreamy_Jazz" title="Special:Contributions/Dreamy Jazz">my contributions</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Dreamy_Jazz-2020-12-24T10:01:00.000Z-Johnbod-2020-12-22T21:32:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">10:01, 24 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd> <dd>In practice I usually find myself mainly just trying to stop one particular candidate (usually successfully, as in this year, but that's probably mostly just luck), which is not all that easy under the current electoral system (there's a lot of boring reading and guesswork as to how to do this most effectively without also irresponsibly doing too much unintended collateral damage through ignorance, etc), though I doubt if there'd be much support for a change intended to facilitate that, perhaps thru eliminating those with most Opposes until there are only the right number of candidates left, etc, (which is a bit like how jury selection tends to work in many places, and arguably ARBCOM is a special kind of jury), instead of electing those with the best percentage support, etc. <a href="/wiki/User:Tlhslobus" title="User:Tlhslobus">Tlhslobus</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Tlhslobus" title="User talk:Tlhslobus">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Tlhslobus-2020-12-22T21:24:00.000Z-Reaper_Eternal-2020-12-22T19:10:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:24, 22 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>It would significantly extend the running time. Not everyone is active on a particular day to vote for arb elections, whereas both parties are there to challenge potential jurors. So you'd have to give time for each round of oppose elimination. It'd also add enough friction which reduces the number of votes I imagine: currently the process takes a minute, a longer process and many folks just won't care enough to vote. <a href="/wiki/User:ProcrastinatingReader" title="User:ProcrastinatingReader">ProcrastinatingReader</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:ProcrastinatingReader" title="User talk:ProcrastinatingReader">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-ProcrastinatingReader-2020-12-24T16:43:00.000Z-Tlhslobus-2020-12-22T21:24:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">16:43, 24 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>It can be done with one vote if people ranked their choices. That has its own set of advantages and disadvantages, as was discussed to some degree during this year's request for comments. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Isaacl-2020-12-24T20:14:00.000Z-ProcrastinatingReader-2020-12-24T16:43:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:14, 24 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd> <dd>I've never heard of jury selection methods involving many votes and eliminating those with the most opposes; do you have any pointers to more info? <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Isaacl-2020-12-24T20:14:00.000Z-Tlhslobus-2020-12-22T21:24:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:14, 24 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd> @<a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">Isaacl</a>: I think they are referring to the voir dire process used in the US for eliminating specific perspective jurors (<a href="/wiki/Voir_dire#Use_in_the_United_States" title="Voir dire">Voir_dire#Use_in_the_United_States</a>). — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Xaosflux-2020-12-24T21:04:00.000Z-Isaacl-2020-12-24T20:14:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:04, 24 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>Perhaps; I don't see any particular similarity to the proposal of eliminating candidates with the most opposes incrementally, in that case. <a href="/w/index.php?title=User:Isaacl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Isaacl (page does not exist)">isaacl</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Isaacl" title="User talk:Isaacl">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Isaacl-2020-12-24T21:46:00.000Z-Xaosflux-2020-12-24T21:04:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">21:46, 24 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Congrats_to_the_whole_gang" data-mw-thread-id="h-Congrats_to_the_whole_gang-2020-12-21T20:23:00.000Z">Congrats to the whole gang</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Congrats to the whole gang">edit</a>]<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> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Purple_Gang.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Purple_Gang.jpg/220px-Purple_Gang.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="134" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Purple_Gang.jpg/330px-Purple_Gang.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Purple_Gang.jpg/440px-Purple_Gang.jpg 2x" data-file-width="606" data-file-height="369"/></a><figcaption>The gang of new arbs</figcaption></figure> Congrats to all our new arbs, and to all our candidates - both for running and the exceptional support rates noted above. To our outgoing arbs, thank you, and may you have a calmer 2021. In fact, that last bit applies to us all! <a href="/wiki/User:Nosebagbear" title="User:Nosebagbear">Nosebagbear</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Nosebagbear" title="User talk:Nosebagbear">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Nosebagbear-2020-12-21T20:23:00.000Z-Congrats_to_the_whole_gang" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">20:23, 21 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd>And a big "thank you" to the electoral commission and the scrutineers for all of their hard work as well! <a href="/wiki/User:Cthomas3" title="User:Cthomas3">CThomas3</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:Cthomas3" title="User talk:Cthomas3">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Cthomas3-2020-12-21T22:57:00.000Z-Nosebagbear-2020-12-21T20:23:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">22:57, 21 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>] <dl><dd><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Our_Gang_December_1930.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Our_Gang_December_1930.jpg/220px-Our_Gang_December_1930.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="101" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Our_Gang_December_1930.jpg/330px-Our_Gang_December_1930.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Our_Gang_December_1930.jpg/440px-Our_Gang_December_1930.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2470" data-file-height="1132"/></a><figcaption>Our gang of new arbs</figcaption></figure> I prefer to think of them this way. They are, after all, not just any gang, but <a href="/wiki/Our_Gang" title="Our Gang">Our Gang</a>. --<a href="/wiki/User:GRuban" title="User:GRuban">GRuban</a> (<a href="/wiki/User_talk:GRuban" title="User talk:GRuban">talk</a>) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-GRuban-2020-12-24T18:31:00.000Z-Cthomas3-2020-12-21T22:57:00.000Z" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">18:31, 24 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]</dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Have_ideas_for_changes_to_the_process?" data-mw-thread-id="h-Have_ideas_for_changes_to_the_process?-2020-12-23T02:15:00.000Z">Have ideas for changes to the process?</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Have ideas for changes to the process?">edit</a>]<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> Hi all, just a reminder - annually we hold a well-advertised RfC to set the parameters for the election process. If you have specific proposals you would like to address you may want to leave some notes on them here: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_comment/Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2021" title="Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021">Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee Elections December 2021</a> (and watchlist that page). Notably, this is not an open RfC now - but can be a place to collect items for the next RfC. Best regards, — <a href="/wiki/User:Xaosflux" title="User:Xaosflux">xaosflux</a> <a href="/wiki/User_talk:Xaosflux" title="User talk:Xaosflux">Talk</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020#c-Xaosflux-2020-12-23T02:15:00.000Z-Have_ideas_for_changes_to_the_process?" class="ext-discussiontools-init-timestamplink">02:15, 23 December 2020 (UTC)</a>[<a class="ext-discussiontools-init-replylink-reply" role="button" tabindex="0" href="">reply</a>]    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1&useformat=desktop" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"></noscript> <div class="printfooter" data-nosnippet="">Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020&oldid=1193802122">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2020&oldid=1193802122</a>"</div></div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Category</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Arbitration_Committee_Elections_2020" title="Category:Wikipedia Arbitration Committee Elections 2020">Wikipedia Arbitration Committee Elections 2020</a></li></ul></div></div> </div> </main> </div> <div class="mw-footer-container"> <footer id="footer" class="mw-footer" > <ul id="footer-info"> <li id="footer-info-lastmod"> This page was last edited on 5 January 2024, at 18:43 (UTC).</li> <li id="footer-info-copyright">Text is available under the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_4.0_International_License" title="Wikipedia:Text of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License</a>; additional terms may apply. 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