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Hi, I'm Doug, a community-elected Miraheze Steward requested here by Ballmedia and Agent Isai, to assess this local election request in lieu of locally active and available bureaucrats. Firstly, I looked in the usual places (namely, in this case, this wiki's Project: namespace) for any pre-existing local policies governing permissions elections or which would otherwise rule this permissions request procedurally out of order. Seeing none, and relying on a combination of common sense and widely established common customs and conventions, the question becomes, is there consensus here for this permissions election? Though this request was never advertised locally with a local sitenotice, it has been open for more than two months and is located on prominent page (the discussion page for Main Page). Additionally, as noted in the request below, Ballmedia even requested assistance locally from Aerinwood, the (one of) the local bureaucrat(s) on the wiki. As such, I find this is a File:Yes check.svg successful election, albeit with only one participant from the Ballmedia network of wikis participating. That being said, the existing bureaucrats and sysops could return at any time, and may just be temporarily inactive. So two points of advice. Firstly, all permissions removals, and elections, should be done in line with consensus of the community. Secondly, as a strongly recommended best practice, we advise that you retain the default permissions for the bureaucrat group. Specifically, who can remove the bureaucrat bit, which is limited to Stewards for two reasons. Firstly, this helps to prevent inadvertent self-removals of the bureaucrat bit, often necessitating Steward intervention to restore. Secondly, this also helps to ensure bureaucrat removals are done in line with local consensus of the community, which is even more critically important in cases like this of a local election by accalamation. Dmehus (talk) 23:57, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

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} ELECTION FOR BUREAUCRAT

Because the only bureaucrat of this wiki, Aerinwood has been inactive and has not responded to messages left on their userpage and shows no indication of interest on this wiki and because members of the former community have expressed their interest in reviving this wiki, this wiki hereby stages this election for bureaucratship in the absence of local active administrators.

Rules for this election

• This election will run for 7 days, starting 20 November, 2021 and ending 00:00 UTC, 27 November, 2021.
• You may either vote Support, Abstain, or Oppose.
• Make sure to include a reason why you support or oppose this candidate.
• Nominees will be declared successful if they obtain at least 50% support votes in total of all votes casted for them.
• You can only vote once in this election, do not make sockpuppets to vote for you.
• A candidate may vote for themselves.

Example

This is what you should put under the Support, Abstain, or Oppose sections. Change Support to Abstain or Oppose if you abstain or oppose:

#'''Support''' - I support X because of Y reason --~~~~

The final result should look like this:

1. Support - I support X because of Y reason --Example (talk) 00:00, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

Self-nomination of User:Ballmedia for Bureaucrat

Ballmedia is self-nominated for the position of bureaucrat.

Support

1. Support - I support Ballmedia due to the staff inactivity. In order to revive the wiki, LGBallT needs to be reconstructed under Ballmedia jurisdiction. It's one of our organization's tenets - to help and assist wiki in their revival. Seeing the community is still showing interest in the wiki, I, as the Network Consul of Ballmedia, decide to lend a hand, thank you. --SchizoACC (talk) 03:37, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

Oppose

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