[WikiEN-l] status correction

steve v vertigosteve at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 3 23:59:56 UTC 2005


Ben wrote:
> Therefore, there were a total of 46 countable votes.
[ie. out of 102 listed responses]

Suffice it to say I think your interpretation of 'what
counts and what doesn't' is rather... um...
interesting, considering that youre talking about
basically throwing out the majority of the total
votes.

User:Stevertigo|SV

--- "Ben E." <bratsche1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure if it could be termed a "sucessful
> RfA". The vote tally
> was *17/29/7/49,
> *which corresponds to (Support/Oppose/Neutral/Remit
> to ArbCom). The "remit"
> votes were explicitly marked as no vote, but an
> encouragement to ArbCom to
> retake the case. Therefore, there were a total of 46
> countable votes. 17/46
> = 36.96%, which doesn't show a consensus for
> adminship in my or in any
> bureaucrat's book, I suppose.
> 
> -[[:en:User:Bratsche|Ben]]
> 
> On 11/2/05, steve v <vertigosteve at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > --- "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com>
> wrote:
> > > I sympathize with this POV for two reasons:
> > >
> > > 1. Because Steve was recently taken down a peg
> (he
> > > lost his sysop
> > > rights) but he STILL is contributing to the
> > > encyclopedia and trying to
> > > find ways to improve the community.
> >
> > I have not "lost [my] sysop rights." Anthere
> > (properly) acted to remove my sysop rights on a
> > request (a premature and perhaps partisan one)
> after
> > the "vote was closed." I had my "RFA" reopened
> because
> > I thought it should benefit from my input. Hence
> > Anthere's decision to desysop was neutral, and the
> > decision to not immediately resysop was nominal
> one,
> > and one that I did not object to while the RFA
> > continued.
> >
> > The RFA failed to find consensus to desysop, and
> more
> > correctly it rejected the Arbcom's use of the RFA
> (and
> > its 70% threshold) to render a decision which it
> > (admittedly) could not come to --"deadlocked"
> case,
> > etc. Though I could have waited, I have asked
> Anthere
> > to restore my sysop status per the "unsuccessful
> > de-RFA aka my "successful RFA", aka the "remand
> > decision."
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > SV
> >
> >
> >
> >
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