The nomination period will begin 12 November and last for 10 days (until 22 November). We will use the same system we've had before and vote by secret ballot. The number of Arbcom members will be reduced to 15 members which leaves 6 slots vacant. The vacant slots are all two-year slots.
A user may run for Arbcom if they meet the voting requirements, meet Wikimedia Foundation's criteria for access to non-public data and confirm in their election statement they will fully comply with the criteria.
The entire process from nominations, voting, and results will be advertised in the watchlist banner, on the village pump (misc), and The Signpost as well as the Wikipedia wide site notice during the voting stage only.
There will be a 5-day fallow period between nominations and the voting. The voting period will begin on 27 November, will last 14 days and will conclude no later than 11 December 2011. All users with 150 mainspace edits by 1 November 2011 who are not blocked at the time of their vote are eligible to vote within the voting window. The candidates will be eligible to vote.
The voting ballot will have three options: "Support", "No Vote", and "Oppose". No vote will be the default option. Voting percentages will be calculated by (Support / (Support + Oppose)). There will be general questions. Qualified voters may ask an unlimited number of relevant questions. Questions are subject to removal if irrelevant, but not because they are too numerous.
A 50% support is required. Shortfall in successful candidates is acceptable. Candidates will be ranked in order of support and the top six candidates will assume the remaining two-year seats on 1 January 2012.
--v/r - TP 17:11, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
This is a request for comment about the upcoming December 2011 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election.
Purpose of this request for comment: To try and gain at least a rough community consensus on structure, rules, and procedures of the December 2011 English Wikipedia Arbitration Committee election.
Structure: This RfC is divided into over a dozen portions, each of which contains a question for the community to discuss. The standard RfC structure will be used, in which any user may make a general statement that other users may endorse if they so agree. The questions will be listed in the table of contents below, along with the users who have made statements.
The questions have been chosen from the comments from Wikipedia:Requests for comment/2010 ArbCom election voting procedure as well as Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2010/Feedback. More questions may be added if other concerns arise.
Duration: This RfC is scheduled to last for about 45 days; on or after 1 November 2011, it will be closed, and an uninvolved editor(s) will determine the result of the RfC. The results will determine the structure, rules, and procedures for the election.
REMINDER TO USE THE TALK PAGE FOR DISCUSSION: All replies to another user's statement, vote, endorsement, or evidence should be posted on the RfC's discussion page. There, threaded discussion should be used to keep discussions organized.
Use the following format below; post a new statement at the BOTTOM of the section in which you want to make a statement. Endorse by adding a hash symbol (#) and your signature.
===Statement by [[User:USERNAME]]=== Comment ~~~~ ;Users who endorse this statement: #~~~~
Users should only edit one summary or view, other than to endorse.