Your new stewards are now

*[[user:Andre Engels|Andre Engels]] (en, nl, de, fr, nds, ...) *[[user:Angela|Angela]] (en) *[[user:Anthere|Anthere]] (fr, en) *[[User:AstroNomer|AstroNomer]] (es, en) *[[user:Daniel Mayer|Daniel Mayer]] (mav) (en, es) *[[User:Danny|Danny]] (en, he, yi) *[[User:Datrio|Datrio]] (pl, en) *[[user:Fantasy|Fantasy]] (en, de, it, <small>fr</small> *[[User:Oscar|Oscar]] (nl, en) *[[User:Shizhao|Shizhao]] (zh, en, ru) *[[User:Sj|Sj]] (en, es) *[[User:Snowdog|Snowdog]] (it, en, fr, es, ca, pt) *[[User:Waerth|Waerth]] (nl, en) *[[User:Yann|Yann]] (fr, en, gu, hi)

Amongst candidates for year 2005, all but one were elected with high level of support. To be fair, I did not check out the last participants for non-perfect suitability for voting, because by looking at the results, it is crystal clear 9 candidates satisfy the "at least 30 votes" and "at least 80%" of support and crystal clear the last one does not. Since the total number was expected to be 10 editors max... I see no sense in calculating complicated statistics.

Astronomer, Danny, Datri, Oscar, Shizhao, Sj, Snowdog, Waerth and Yann are simply elected by very large consensus, and that is it.

As for Traroth, I will just tell him that he not being recognised as suitable in this role, absolutely does not diminish the quality of his edits, which are appreciated by the french community as far as I know.

Reminder for Stewards : it is usually best to avoid removing sysop rights (except when asked by the user himself out of tiredness) on your own favorite projects. Both because you could be biaised, and because others could consider you biaised. Generally, let other stewards take the responsability of unsysoping people in your community. Also, remember that the role of a steward is not to change his own status to help himself, NOR to act unilaterally, but only to do what is useful and according to community rules.

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As proposed a few months ago, and not rejected by anyone, inactive stewards will be destewarded. This follow the same habit that what we do for sysops on meta.

Last activity at Special:Log/rights show that * Looxix was very active initially, but he is no more. He has left the project (he asked me personally to remove his rights) * Karl has never done any steward activity according to the log * Arno Lagrange has only done steward activity to give himself sysop rights (last february).

Karl will be removed his rights due to inactivity.

Note that Arno protested yesterday at the idea of his steward rights being removed, pleading that he had been elected, had never abused the position, supported linguistic diversity, had the intent to use it again to give himself rights on some projects to help.

Angela answered him that being a steward was first of all a collective role ("I expect stewards to carry out the requests at requests for permissions"). Which he never did.

I support Angela here. Stewards should not just be super sysops, but people helping the editors getting the access rights they need, according to community wishes. A steward not carying those tasks is not useful and is spreading a false image of many people being able to help.

I totally respect Arno request for more diversity but Snowdog and Astronomer will now be able to help with the it and es communities.

There is a habit on meta that goes this way.

"if you need a status, ask for it. If you do not need it any more, give it back". This is the reason why sysops are unsysoped after a year of basic inactivity on meta. If they do not come to meta, there is no sense in them staying sysop. This is not a criticism of their person, nor a measurement of their trustefullness in the community.

So, I will wait people comments on this. However, if Arno activity keeps limited to giving himself rights when he needs it and never helping the community, I think he should be removed.

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All this will naturally be applied when the db is no more in the read-only mode. But the vote is closed.

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In all cases, thanks for your unanimity and for the quiet surrounding this vote :-)

Anthere