User talk:FOARP/Archives/2024/October

RFA2024 update: Discussion-only period now open for review

Hi there! The trial of the RfA discussion-only period passed at WP:RFA2024 has concluded, and after open discussion, the RfC is now considering whether to retain, modify, or discontinue it. You are invited to participate at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase II/Discussion-only period. Cheers, and happy editing! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:38, 27 September 2024 (UTC)

Admin elections are upon us!

You should run. If you want to run at normal RfA, I could nominate you there, but I'm going to be quite tired for a while and AELECT needs qualified candidates, so I would definitely encourage you to give this a shot :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 02:44, 8 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the encouragement, I've put something up, hopefully it's visible? FOARP (talk) 08:49, 9 October 2024 (UTC)

Listing your name for AELECT

Hi,

After a talk page discussion, we decided to be safe, and so unlisted all candidates for Admin Elections this month unless they added themselves explicitly. So please re-add yourself to the list at Wikipedia:Administrator_elections/October_2024/Call_for_candidates if you're ready to submit. I believe the Call for Candidates process ends October 14, 2024 at 23:59 UTC.

I just wanted to also leave a talk page message to be sure you didn't miss User:Novem Linguae's notif earlier. Good luck on your elections! Soni (talk) 07:34, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

Administrator Elections: Candidate instructions

Administrator Elections | Instructions for candidates

Thank you for choosing to run in the October 2024 administrator elections. This bulletin contains some important information about the next stages of the election process.

As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

• October 15–21: SecurePoll setup phase
• October 22–24: Discussion phase
• October 25–31: SecurePoll voting phase
• November 1–?: Scrutineering phase

We are currently in the SecurePoll setup phase. Your candidate subpage will remain closed to questions and discussion. However, this is an excellent opportunity for you to recruit nominators (if you want them) and have them place their nomination statements, and a good time for you to answer the standard three questions, if you have not done so already. We recommend you spend the SecurePoll setup phase from October 15–21 getting your candidate page polished and ready for the next phase.

The discussion phase will take place from October 22–24. Your candidate subpage will open to the public and they will be permitted to discuss you and ask you formal questions, in the same style as a request for adminship (RfA). Please make sure you are around on those dates to answer the formal questions in a timely manner.

On October 25, we will start the voting phase. The candidate subpages will close again to public questions and discussion, and everyone will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. Anyone can see who has voted, but not who they voted for. You are permitted and encouraged to vote in the election, including voting for yourself. Please note that the vote tallies cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see your tally during the election. The suffrage requirements are different from those at RfA.

Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for an indeterminate amount of time, perhaps a week or two. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, you must have received at least 70% support, calculated as support ÷ (support + oppose). As this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("'crat chats").

Any questions or issues can be asked on the election talk page. Thank you for your participation as a candidate, and best of luck.

You're receiving this message because you are a candidate in the October 2024 administrator elections.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:40, 19 October 2024 (UTC)

WikiProject Unreferenced articles November 2024 backlog drive

WikiProject Unreferenced articles | November 2024 Backlog Drive
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:06, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

Our Admin Election Test

Hello there. As we're preparing to move from one stage to the next, this is just a quick note from one member of the test group to another, wishing you well in the process of this new alternative to RfA. It seems that there are more of us in this group than some in the community anticipated, so i hope that doesn't make the experience any the worse for all of us. Whatever our individual results, i thank you, along with the rest, for stepping up and testing this process; happy days, ~ Lindsay^Hello 07:18, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the good wishes my fellow test-subject! I never thought I’d be a lab-rat but here we are! FOARP (talk) 19:59, 21 October 2024 (UTC)

Regarding your wish to be higher up on the list: be careful what you wish for! (From someone high up on the list). A better experience than I expected, but still... — rsjaffe 🗣️ 00:24, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

Actually, page views are not necessarily related to position on page. We should look at this after election completed. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 02:52, 25 October 2024 (UTC)

This isn’t (mostly) about position on the page - the point is more that (like Beeblebrox said over on WPO) it very much looks like there isn’t that much attention on/engagement with any individual candidate. FOARP (talk) 06:08, 25 October 2024 (UTC)