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Hello, and welcome to this RfC concerning guidelines as to when a !vote in a requests for adminship discussion should be removed.
This RfC has been caused by controversy surrounding a vote being struck, unstruck, struck again, unstruck for a second time, struck for a third time, unstruck for a third time, struck for a fourth time, and then finally unstruck, with instructions from Cyberpower678 to not strike the vote again, and the dissent relating to the vote moved to the talk page.
I do not want to set the agenda -- that, friends, is up to you -- but the vote in question was not vandalism, and was not directly insulting Megalibrarygirl. Therefore, the RfC below is to establish clear guidance concerning removal of votes before the final count, and preventing incidents like above.
In addition, a similar incident occurred in the same RfA concerning questions, see [1], thus the RfC will establish the same as above but for questions. A previous question by the same editor who wrote the oppose vote above was also struck by Drmies. Both were answered anyway by the candidate.
Although not the same thing entirely, Paulmcdonald's oppose in TonyBallioni's RfA received heavy criticism from various editors, to the point where he felt pressured to move to the neutral section. As a result, I have extended this RfC to include discussion of whether threaded discussion of !votes should be allowed.
I said on the discussion on WT:RFA that this sort of oppose-hounding is new, but I am wrong, see this RFA from two years ago -- Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Wbm1058 with GregJackP's notorious oppose (see also the discussion at Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_adminship/Wbm1058#GregJackP that was moved there).
Pinging involved editors who have not participated yet: @Fuzheado:, @The ed17:, @Trooper1005:, @Inatan:, @Jdcomix:.
My name continues to not be dave (talk) 08:10, 14 October 2017 (UTC)