Editing WiKirby:Editor-in-Chief/draft

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This is a revisal of the current EiC election procedures. Feel free to suggest changes on the talk page. 

[[User:Tacopill|Tacopill]] ([[User talk:Tacopill|talk]]) 22:30, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

The voting period is over, with '''Support''' winning out. Thank you for everyone who participated. 

Since there's concern over if the AEiC position is needed at this time, due to everything going well among other reasonings, YFJ doesn't need to appoint anyone at this time. 

If you think the wording can be improved, feel free to suggest it on Discord, on a talk page, or in a proposal, depending on the change that is needed. 

[[User:Tacopill|Tacopill]] ([[User talk:Tacopill|talk]]) 00:55, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

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The Editor-in-Chief is a position on the wiki with much responsibility. They are an elected representative and authoritative leader of the wiki who helps settle disputes without interrupting the natural process of gathering consensus, but also intervenes whenever editors become disruptive and malicious.

The Editor-in-Chief's responsibilities include: 

* Helping lead the staff to encourage good edits, welcome new members, set up projects or collaborations, or anything else beneficial to the wiki.
* Helping the staff contact other websites for affiliation.
* Delegating their responsibilities to any staff member, or in some cases, any user, whom they feels can perform the job well.
* Recommending users to be promoted to admins, and have users promoted to Patroller who could be candidates for future staff.
* Serve as a representative for the community to NIWA, grifkuba, affiliates, and more

A user may remain as Editor-in-Chief for as long as they choose, or as long as they have staff support. At the time of his or her departure, they may run an election to see whom will be elected the next Editor-in-Chief. They may nominate one person, and the Editor-in-Chief's vote counts as one vote. However, the Editor-in-Chief cannot close the election until at least one week has passed and a simple majority has been reached, even if the Editor-in-Chief's selected candidate is not elected. 

If the incumbent Editor-in-Chief has no nominations, they may simply oversee the election process. 

If the incumbent Editor-in-Chief becomes unavailable for an extended period of time, responsibility falls to the wiki owner to hold a new election, or appoint a temporary Editor-in-Chief to fulfill the position until one can be formally elected. 

== Assistant Editor-in-Chief ==
The current Editor-in-Chief can appoint an assistant Editor-in-Chief (AEiC), who can take over in their absence while they are away for long periods of time, give advice on policy, help make decisions, etc. 

In the event of the EiC losing confidence of the community or in case of extended absence, the EiC may be removed from their position and have the AEiC automatically take over. 

The staff of the wiki can vote to remove the EiC (and AEiC, if needed) from the position. If anyone interferes with the removal process, the owner can remove them as well. 

The assistant Editor-in-Chief then becomes the acting Editor-in-Chief, which holds the position until the next one is elected. 

== Election timeline ==
Elections are held on an as-needed basis, with the term of one ending with the beginning of another. 

While the election is going on, the user running the election is called the "organizer". 

* They decide when the election starts and ends. 
* They should remain neutral for the proceedings. 
** If they become a candidate themselves, another user should take over for them if the current one decides not to decline. 

=== Nomination Period ===
* 1 week (168 hours) 
* To be a candidate, a user needs to be admin or above. 
* Users can nominate themselves and others.
* Another user performing a "second" for them to be considered certified. If a user isn't certified, they won't be carried until the voting period, but this is at the organizer's discretion. 

=== Voting Period ===
* 1 week (168 hours) 
* Ideally, each vote should come with reasons for or against the candidate, but if they have a personal reason to not reveal it, the organizer can let them. The organizer can, if needed, disqualify a vote if the reason is personal, invalid, irrelevant, etc. 
* The winner is user with the most votes and strongest reasoning.
* In the event of a tie, the organizer is the deciding vote, voting in favor of the user with the strongest reasonings collected by the users who supported them.

== Nominating and voting ==
All nominations and voting should go in a subpage of this page, with the title of the subpage being of the form "WiKirby:Editor-in-Chief/Election_#" where the number is the cardinal number of elections that has happened before, plus one. Generally, the voting page will be set up and moderated by the outgoing Editor-in-Chief and other bureaucrats. Copy the following code into the voting page, replacing the <number> and <username> variables as appropriate:
<pre>
This page is for electing the WiKirby's <number> [[WiKirby:Editor-in-Chief|Editor-in-Chief]]. Please vote on and discuss this election below.
* Add your vote by using the code <nowiki># ~~~~</nowiki>.
* If you wish to nominate another user, create appropriate new subsections under the "Nominees" section.
* ''Voting began at ~~~~~.''

== Nomination period ==
''Nominate people by placing there user-name here. If you wish to second a nomination, place  "<nowiki>#*</nowiki> seconded" under the nomination of the same person. Please sign it when done.''

== Voting period ==
<!-- Start: 1 for each nominee -->
=== <username> ===
==== Statement ====
==== Support ====
# ~~~~

==== Oppose ====
==== Comments ====
<!-- Stop: 1 for each nominee -->
== Results ==

[[Category:Requests for permissions|{{PAGENAME}}]]
</pre>
Add links to the voting page here under "[[#Current Election|Current Election]]", at [[WiKirby:Requests for permissions#Editor-in-Chief|WiKirby:Requests for permissions]] under "Editor-in-Chief", and in an announcement on the main page's [[Template:News|News template]].

After a reasonable amount of time has passed (not less than one week), the vote may be closed by the outgoing Editor-in-Chief, or the bureaucrat they have chosen to place in charge of overseeing the election. The winner will be the user with a simple majority of votes. The voting page should be [[Help:Protected Page|fully protected]]. The links on [[WiKirby:Requests for permissions#Editor-in-Chief|WiKirby:Requests for permissions]] and [[Template:News|the News template]] should be removed, and the link here under "[[#Current Election|Current Election]]" moved to "[[#Past Elections|Past Elections]]". The winning user should then be promoted to Bureaucrat, if they are not already one.

== Current Election ==


== Past Elections ==


== Votes ==
Voting to make this effective will open at 00:00 UTC on the 15th of February, 2021 and will conclude 2 weeks. 

It will become effective, if and only if, 3/4s of the voting is in support of it. 

If there is disputes, concerns, etc. at the end of the period, then voting can be extended until the amount has been reached. 

=== Support ===
#Everything seems like it should work, and with the biggest questions addressed on the talk page, I'm ready to support this new system. {{User:Pinkyoshifan/sig}} 19:57, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
#I agree with Pinkyoshifan. This could work! ----Junethebest 9:55 16 February 2021
#After thinking, and per my motto of "better safe than sorry", I support this. This won't change much in the present, and could be helpful for the future, so as I see it it makes more sense to support. {{User:Gigi/sig}} 14:48, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
#I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about the AEiC or the necessity of the position, but I'm not interested in being obstructive either. I will support. --[[User:Samwell|Samwell]] ([[User talk:Samwell|talk]]) 15:01, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
#I agree with Samwell. I'm still not sure such a position is necessary, but I will support. We should be able to make changes if need be. -- {{User:MetaDragon/sig}} 06:06, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
#Though I sympathize with Trig's opinion, and also am still unconvinced about the necessity of an AEiC, this draft included some important stuff about the election process, which I feel weighs a lot more than the AEiC concern. Hence my support. --[[User:pandakekok9|pandakekok9]] ([[User talk:pandakekok9|poyo]]) 14:29, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

=== Oppose ===
#I still think there is no need for specific system in place. My reasoning has generally been left on the talk page for this page but to reiterate, we are at strong enough current activity that in the event something goes wrong, there will either be enough warning or people to fill in the place should an unexpected gap occur. [[User:Trig Jegman|Trig]] - 15:45, 16 February 2021 (UTC)