Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2006

• The next elections to the Arbitration Committee will start on the 4th of December 2006 and will run for 2 weeks.
• Self-nominations will be accepted up to the 1st of December 2006.
• In order to vote you will be required to have had an account registered before the 1st of October and 150 edits on en.wikipedia at the start of the vote.
• In order to run you will need to have 1000 edits on en.wikipedia.
• Candidates will provide a brief (less than 400 words) statement although they will be free to link to a longer statement if they wish.
• At this time the number of seats that will be up for election is unknown but will probably be at least 5, to fill Tranche Gamma whose duties expire on 31st of December 2006. Newly appointed Committee members are likely to be given three-year terms until 31st of December 2009.
• Candidate statements will be accepted from October the 1st at Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2006/Candidate statements.
• Jimbo favours running the elections in the same way that they were run last year, that is:
  • All candidates with more 'support' votes than 'oppose' votes were eligible for the ArbCom. If there are more approvals than seats available, Jimbo will either expand the size of the committee or choose among the community approved candidates. Jimbo appointed candidates mostly in the order of the percentage of approval in the community.

Related info

Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/Templates/2005 ArbCom election

Election status of the current members of Tranche gamma

as of November 4, 2006

• The Epopt: not running for reelection [1]
• Jayjg: not yet announced
• Theresa knott: not running for reelection [2]
• Sam Korn: not running for reelection
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