Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight/May 2010 election#Results

The Arbitration Committee determined in March 2010 that additional Oversighters and CheckUsers were needed to improve workload distribution and ensure complete, timely response to requests. Following an application period, and review of submissions by the Committee, the below candidates were presented for community consideration. The election process was as follows:

The May 2010 election using SecurePoll ended one minute past 23:59 UTC on May 27, 2010.
For this election the Committee will likely take up to 4 Checkusers, and 6 Oversighters from the vetted candidates.
Voters can vote for as many candidates as they wish and must have made 150 mainspace edits by March 31, 2010.
Current arbitrators and former arbitrators from within the past year may not vote.

For answers to common questions about the election process, please see here. The results are posted below.

= Timeline of election process =

March 31 – Announcement of upcoming election and invitation to request applications
April 10 – Deadline to request applications
April 12 at 23:59 UTC – Deadline for submission of applications
March 31 – April 30 – Arbitration Committee review of submissions
May 1-8 – Preparation for election, including offers of nomination to selected candidates
May 7 – Candidates are announced and may post a brief statement
May 8-27 – The community may begin asking questions of the candidates. Question/Comment period will continue throughout the voting period.
May 14-27 – Voting using the SecurePoll extension for a secret ballot
May 28-31 – Arbitration Committee review of results
June 1 – [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Noticeboard&diff=365144301&oldid=363857486 Announcement] of results

CheckUser candidates

Oversight candidates

Results

Below are the results of the elections for CheckUser and Oversight permissions conducted in May 2010:

CheckUser results

:Note: 393 users participated in this election

Username	Support	Neutral	Oppose	% Support
class="wikitable"
Amalthea	211	122	60	77.8%
MuZemike	213	81	99	68.3%
Tiptoety	209	67	116	64.3%
Jamesofur	146	128	119	55.1%

Oversight results

:Note: 368 users participated in this election

Username	Support	Neutral	Oppose	% Support
class="wikitable"
Lankiveil	133	166	69	65.8
Ryan Postlethwaite	182	61	125	59.3
Closedmouth	123	157	88	58.3
Beeblebrox	138	119	111	55.4
LessHeard vanU	151	88	129	53.9
Valley2city	90	181	97	48.1
Someguy1221	82	196	90	47.6
Arbitrarily0	93	171	104	47.2

Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight/May 2010 election#Results

= Timeline of election process =

CheckUser candidates

Oversight candidates

Results

See also