User:Courcelles/Recall

This is relativity simple. If you feel I've abused adminship, come talk to me. If I agree you're right, I'll fix it. If it can't be fixed, or I disagree, and you want to peruse this avenue^[1]

Okay, we're still here. This is formed by using criteria written by Elonka as a jumping off point, but modified. Mainly, I don't accept her "Senior Wikipedian" language as having any validity.^[2]

Summary of my recall standards

My own standards for voluntary administrator recall are:

In order for a recall to be initiated, there must be proof that one of my administrative actions has recently been in dispute.
The recall must be certified by at least six neutral Wikipedians in good standing.
If after one week of discussion, there is a community consensus that I should resign, I will either resign my access or stand for a reconfirmation RfA.
If there has been no discussion with me directly, I reserve the right to close a recall request immediately; but without prejudice towards the filing of another one once we have had an open discussion in good faith. (If I think you're completely right, I may well march over to m:SRP and turn in my mop and save the drama.)

The details

Recall initiation

To begin the process, a formal request for recall must be made at my talkpage. To preserve my sanity due to the orange bar, I may elect to move the request to a subpage in my userpage, however links on both my talk page and user page must be left if this option is elected.

At the initiation of the recall, a diff must be provided which shows either:
- A recent overturn of an administrative action that I have taken; or
- A recent consensus of community disapproval, at WP:AN or WP:ANI, of one of my administrative actions.
- This must be from within the past fortnight.
  - The action in dispute should be somewhere near the Wednesbury unreasonableness standard.^[3]

Recall certification

Once initiated, the recall must be certified within 48 hours, or I may close it immediately. Certification will be deemed to have occurred if there have been:

Good faith endorsements from at least six neutral Wikipedians in good standing besides the original filer.

Recall process

If certified, other editors may then weigh in to offer their own comments, and indicate whether they endorse the recall, or oppose it.

If at the end of one week, there is a consensus that the community has lost confidence in my adminship, I will choose either to resign, or to stand for a reconfirmation RfA.

I reserve the right to strike out any specific endorsements which are made by users who are not neutral and in good standing.

No consensus defaults to the status quo.

Definitions

Good standing

At least 1,000 edits in mainspace
At least 10 article edits per month during the preceding 3 months
No (unoverturned) blocks within the last year
No ArbCom restrictions within the last year; whether issued by the Committee itself or under a discretionary sanction provision.
No involuntarily de-sysopped admins
No record of abusive sockpuppetry
Was eligible to vote in the most recent elections to the Arbitration Committee

Neutral

Not from an editor who has been warned by me within the last year
Not from an editor who has been active in articles closely related to where I have been issuing ArbCom discretionary sanctions
Not from an editor who has been engaged in an editing dispute with me within the last year

Administrative actions

Blocks and unblocks of users
Protecting and unprotecting pages
Deleting and undeleting pages
Banning a user from a page or set of pages
Imposing ArbCom-authorized discretionary sanctions

Enforceability

These provision are enforce immediately, from the timestamp attached. 13:09, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

If, at any time, I decide to withdraw from this process, I will leave a timestamp on this page. Such withdrawal will only become effective one fortnight after such timestamp.^[4]

Any disagreements over the wording of this process will be referred to an uninvolved administrator.

Notes

^ For certain concerns, there are of course other venues that are much more likely to get you what you want. For example, an AFD close that you disagree with is ten times more suited for deletion review than this process.
^ I've said at RFA before that adminship is not four stripes on your sleeve. Even more so such flags as steward, 'crat, checkuser, oversight, etc. should not be seen as more and thicker stripes. Abilities on Wikipedia must not be limited on flags any more than is absolutely necessary, and I see no reason for what flags someone holds to ever impact a recall process.
^ When an administrator is working actively, it is to be expected that the occasional action may be overturned, especially in cases where reasonable admins may disagree on the best way to deal with a particular situation. For the purpose of a recall though, the issue is not simply whether admins disagree, but whether an action was taken which few if any reasonable admins would say was appropriate or in good faith.
^ Administrative actions taken within this fortnight holding period are valid material for a recall under this process.

[1] For certain concerns, there are of course other venues that are much more likely to get you what you want. For example, an AFD close that you disagree with is ten times more suited for deletion review than this process.

[2] I've said at RFA before that adminship is not four stripes on your sleeve. Even more so such flags as steward, 'crat, checkuser, oversight, etc. should not be seen as more and thicker stripes. Abilities on Wikipedia must not be limited on flags any more than is absolutely necessary, and I see no reason for what flags someone holds to ever impact a recall process.

[3] When an administrator is working actively, it is to be expected that the occasional action may be overturned, especially in cases where reasonable admins may disagree on the best way to deal with a particular situation. For the purpose of a recall though, the issue is not simply whether admins disagree, but whether an action was taken which few if any reasonable admins would say was appropriate or in good faith.

[4] Administrative actions taken within this fortnight holding period are valid material for a recall under this process.

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