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Instructions: Answer five questions.
- An admin disrupts a Wikimedia Foundation software rollout and is summarily desysopped by a steward. The admin applies to the Bureaucrat's noticeboard for re-sysopping, on the grounds that the desysop was improper. Which of our policies and guidelines apply here? (20 points)
- An RfA results in strong opposition to the candidate. A large number of Wikipedians argue that the candidate's pro-gun control stance is antithetical to the notion of a free encyclopaedia, since the right to carry weapons is an essential freedom. Which of our policies and guidelines apply here? (20 points)
- A former admin who was desysopped for inactivity a year ago applies to the Bureaucrat's noticeboard for re-sysopping. However, ArbCom then issues a resolution that the former admin not be re-sysopped. Which of our policies and guidelines apply here? (20 points)
- An admin admonished but not desysopped by ArbCom resigns in disgust at the decision. A year later, she applies to the Bureaucrat's noticeboard for re-sysopping. Which of our policies and guidelines apply here? (20 points)