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The implicit idea, floated by some, that Arbcom would have applied the same level of scrutiny in this case had no AN thread been made and all the evidence had been sent to them privately, is preposterous. Comments from several Arbs in the AN thread and in the initial case request make it very clear ...

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Proposal 13, admin elections, has a stunningly high level of support as of now, with a whopping six-to-one support/oppose ratio, and a third of the opposes being either weak or conditional. Stunning because RfA reform proposals historically basically never get that kind of overwhelming consensus, ev...

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56 keep to 31 remove by my count as of now. Not sure what the numerical standards are for Stewards but at 64% that wouldn’t generally suffice as a pass at RfA on Enwiki.

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The reason TNW stopped participating is that they tried participating at first and that apparently made it worse. When talking appears to be making the problem worse, it’s time to shut up, and to TNW’s credit that’s what they did.

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This, in all likelihood, is basically over. I don’t see Mzajac returning to contest the desysop. He may or may not return to editing someday but he’s finished as an admin.

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So many people, in an attempt to demonstrate their status as master socksleuths head and shoulders above the other wikiraabble, have and will accuse various vaguely-troubled RfA candidates of being the second coming of Eostrix or Lourdes. I’m here to claim that of all of these allegations have been ...

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The last 43 votes are 35 support 8 oppose for 81%, so this doesn’t seem like it’s quite in “inevitable crat chat” territory just yet.

I’d agree with those saying that TNW’s comment to Tamzin was perhaps a tad patronizing but far from disqualifying, even if arguably somewhat doubled down on in Q9.

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Barring a surprise motion or reversals there’s going to be a case, it’s already at majority accept.

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Well, it worked with Mark Ironie and CorbieVreccan, so it's worth a shot.

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If L235 either votes to accept as he suggested he intends to, or goes inactive like the list of inactive Arbs says he is, the case is at majority accept with 7/12 or 6/11.

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Leyo and TheresNoTime would have trouble due to recent Arbcom admonishments. Leyo in particular would almost definitely fail an RfA that started today. TNT would probably wind up in crat chat if I had to guess. Out of MrErnie's list I'd say Floq, Bish, and El C would have a good shot to pass. David...

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Leyo and TheresNoTime would have trouble due to recent Arbcom admonishments. Leyo in particular would almost definitely fail an RfA that started today. TNT would probably wind up in crat chat if I had to guess. Out of MrErnie's list I'd say Floq, Bish, and El C would have a good shot to pass. David ...

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Case filed by arbitrator Guerillero: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case#Mzajac_and_Bbb23_Wheel_War In a nutshell: Mzajac created a page, an admin deleted it, Mzajac undeleted it, and Bbb23 redeleted it. I agree with Guerillero that these seem like bright-line violation...

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The evidence shows that emails went out and then, shortly after, the exact requested edits were made. We are talking in some cases word for word copies. For all three users named, this happened enough times to consider sanctions. For the "some cases" of genuinely word-for-word copies Guerillero men...

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The RfA is now closed, but not before Lightburst reinstated the material reported to BN.

Galobtter has now requested that a crat re-remove it.

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Fair enough. Seems plausible that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... Canvassing might have something to do with it, then, though Andrevan's not in there for proposed sanctions.

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For someone lacking admin/crat/functionary status, I think it’s most likely an order to show cause as to why the user should not be indef Arbcom blocked.

Wouldn’t surprise me if it’s WPO related, by the way, with that being the most logical reason for this to be an Arbcom matter.

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Red-Tailed Hawk has also passed (well, as of this writing it hasn’t been closed yet, but it’s a clear auto-pass at 97%). With rather interesting timing, one of RTH’s strongest opposers, GhostofDanGurney, has posted a retirement message within minutes of RTH’s RfA timer running out. Hard to see this ...

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Self-nom from Interstellarity. Doesn’t look very promising.

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With yet another admin weighing in favor of lifting, nableezy’s appeal now looks like it’s on track for success.

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The results have now been certified.

On a more positive note, congrats are due to Firefly in particular for an outstanding showing at the ballot box.

EDIT: Also, xaosflux sent notices to all the candidates except, for some reason, HJ Mitchell. Probably just an oversight.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia ... ember_2023

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We've got preliminary results. My prediction of all but Wugapodes and Robert McClennon making it appears to be correct. Pretty dismal showing for the incumbents compared to most years, though it's still short of a total repudiation. No incumbent cracking the top 60%, and one of them being unseated o...

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In about half a day Tails Wx has gone from 145/7/2 to 142/33/9. Still 42 hours to go. While it's still at 81%, at this point I'd be pretty surprised to see that one pass.

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January 1, which is what makes it pretty bad to still not have results 3 days before then.

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It's a really common name in the US, so the prior odds of it being used on any animal (including a hawk) without thinking about the "joke" aren't especially low. I'm sure there are thousands of animals named "Mike" or some variant thereof in the US. Someone naming a hawk "York" on the other hand is ...

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This delay is definitely getting pretty "bad" now. Even assuming the results are released today, the new Arbs are going to have very little time to get acclimated to things like the mailing list and arbwiki before their term begins (assuming access to those is usually granted before the term starts).

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Nableezy's appeal looks like it's got a small shot of success but more on ROPE/net-positive grounds than erroneous sanction grounds. Iennes' appeal has no chance. Also, the main reason admins tend not to unilaterally issue these kinds of sanctions, especially against long-term contributors, is that ...

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I'd seen the MikeHawk name around before RTH's username change and never either heard of nor noticed the double entendre until it was pointed out in this RfA. I think that's definitely one that's extremely plausible to not notice and I 100% believe that RTH didn't notice it either until it was point...

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A third one is now live: Red-Tailed Hawk has thrown their hat in.

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Wikiguy.DC wrote: ↑
Mon Dec 25, 2023 5:39 am
Make of it what you will, but this is the longest the "scrutineering" has taken since 2017

From what I can glean it’s also the latest in calendar date ever by several days at least; the latest previous one I could find was Dec 21, and I checked going back to 2009.

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Clovermoss has passed, pretty easily in the end.

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Fred Bauder definitely has to take the cake for worst performance during an Arbcom election. His conduct in response to a candidate question was so bad that his actions led to a crat IAR emergency desysopping him. Arbcom ratified the desysop shortly afterward. He was also very nearly subject to a CB...

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My not-very-confident prediction is that Wugapodes and McClennon don’t make it and the other eight do.

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Good on them for at least copping to it, but yeah the Gtoffoletto thing was handled horrendously.

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Probably won’t happen but it would be hilarious if backlash against the Beeblebrox removal resulted in both incumbents getting tossed and therefore the first ever non-admin Arb being elected.

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Something that hasn’t come up that I recall: near the beginning of his term, Cabayi boomerang blocked Wizzito for violating LOUTSOCK, which was rapidly overturned by overwhelming consensus at ANI. Noteworthy because blocks made by sitting Arbs are not often reversed by consensus. I also think there’...

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Interestingly, all eight so far seem to me to be well-qualified candidates without substantial drama/baggage/wiki-enemies. My perception has been that sometimes admins get off the fence and throw their hat in the ring in part to ensure that a clearly unworthy candidate doesn’t scrape by into a seat,...

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In hindsight, it’s a bit darkly ironic that TNT was detooled in large part for CU’ing an account that turned out to be a sockpuppet all along.

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Crat and recent Arb Maxim is running. Easy shoo-in.

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ToBeFree and Firefly should be shoo-ins. Z1720 should make it unless the field gets very crowded. Aoidh’s chances aren’t great due to some voters tending to disfavor admins that were only very recently (i.e. this year) promoted. They’ll pass the minimum absolute threshhold for a seat but it probably...

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Striking the oppose was an acceptable crat action IMO but was nonetheless a bad idea that accomplished nothing other than drama creation.

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Now at 81%. Been a very long time since an RfA that ever was in crat chat range ultimately succeded without a crat chat, but if current trends continue we may see that here.

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It’s not doomed yet. ScottishFinnishRadish was basically at 75% from day one and hung on the whole way.

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Some Arbs have now indicated they wish to proceed with a case anyway.

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They already are both desysopped, and this is clearly under a cloud, so they cannot regain the tools except via RfA.

I expect Arbcom to dismiss the pending case, though I see there is an Iban motion in the works with significant support.

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MI’s stated rationale for resigning the tools seems to be in part to attempt to preserve CV’s adminship, so it appears unlikely that CV will resign as well, though it would probably be wise at this point.

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The focus of CV and MI on Skyerise reminds me of the focus of BHG on Laurel Lodged and her other opponents during BHG’s case, in that even if Arbcom believes the evidence, none of it is exculpatory in the slightest and the best it can do is lead to sanctions on the other parties. Perhaps if they cou...

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Also I agree that the address should be removed from here ASAP.

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CV’s response at the RFAR is typical of admin parties to Arbcom cases in that it increases her odds of being desysopped and accomplishes little else.

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