On 11/3/05, steve v vertigosteve@yahoo.com wrote:
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
Bureaucrats don't count the neutral votes as actual "votes" (i.e. adding to the percentage), see [[Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/Archive 26#Ending times]]. The section that contained the "remit to Arbcom" clearly said in bold letters "No vote - remit to Arbcom". Many of those who listed their name their, including myself, made that more clear by putting '''No Vote''' ~~~~. That is how I got the "countable" votes, for the sake of a better word.
Also, your RfA was to be treated as a normal one, based on the quote from [[User:Raul654]] (an arbitrator) on the bottom of the page in the "Comments" section found in centered italics:
His RFA it to be treated like any other - less than 70% and he loses his sysophood, between 70 and 80% is the bureacrat's call, and greater than 80% is approval. →Raul654 01:22, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
Under those qualifications, your RfA was closed early by Theresa knott as
failed, and the case was sent back to the Arbitration Committee.
--[[:en:User:Bratsche|Ben]]
-- Bratsche-It means "viola!"