Forum:CT:Changing the RfA rules

This proposal is to basically abolish the current RfA rules. These well-intentioned rules were created by George Lopez Squishy Vic (the man, the myth, the legend) back when RfAs were looked at as elections in the sense that people ran against each other. That’s because elections used to be organized typically when another administrator stepped down, and then there’d be a number of candidates and only one would win. As we now are aware, that’s not how we do it anymore. Now you’re not running against anyone, but rather you’re either being confirmed or denied. Anyone can run for and be elected as an administrator at any time if they nominate themselves and the community votes them in.

So with that in mind, we need to get rid of the current and obnoxiously long rules and replace them with just the basics. This is essentially just a formality, since we don’t really follow these rules anyway and never really have. This is really just officially doing away with them. This is what I want to replace them with (the first two are basically all we've been following, the second two are brand new but are still pretty logical):


 * 1) Users must have 100 mainspace edits to be nominated for adminship and/or to vote on a nominee, per the voting policy.
 * 2) Users may not vote for or against themselves, but they may nominate themselves.
 * 3) Users must have at least a majority vote (51%) from the voting registered users in order for their nomination to pass.
 * 4) Users must have at least a majority vote (51%) from all administrators in order for their nomination to pass.

I believe this is enough for an RfA. It’s the basics of what you need and it’s far less complicated than what we have now. If you have any additional suggestions, please bring them up. This vote will last until Wednesday, November 4 unless more or less time is required. All matters of the voting policy apply. Please be civil. - Brandon Rhea  (talk) 05:39, October 28, 2009 (UTC)

Change the RfA rules based on the proposal

 * 1) Brandon Rhea Alliance Starbird.svg (talk) 05:39, October 28, 2009 (UTC)

Discussion
If you have any further suggestions for additional rules or anything else like that, feel free to bring them up here. - Brandon Rhea  (talk) 05:39, October 28, 2009 (UTC)