User:Buffs/Recall

If you feel I've abused adminship, come talk to me. I'm only human and I make mistakes just like everyone else. If I agree you're right, I'll fix it. If it can't be fixed, or I disagree, and all other avenues have been exhausted (an AFD close that you disagree with is probably ten times more suited for deletion review than admin recall), then here are my criteria for initiating a recall, derived largely from Courcelles' and Elonka's recall criteria.

My recall standards
My 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.
 * I have committed actions outside of administrative roles which bring my trust into question
 * The recall must be certified by at least five neutral Wikipedia Administrators or eleven neutral editors 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 SRP and turn in my mop and save the drama.)

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 user space.


 * 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.
 * A recent consensus of community disapproval over non-adminstrative actions which bring my trust into question.
 * This must be from within the past fortnight.
 * The action in dispute should be somewhere near the Wednesbury unreasonableness standard.

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:

The recall must be by at least five neutral Wikipedia Administrators or eleven neutral editors in good standing in addition to the person that initially filed the request.

Users that oppose such a recall will be provided a space to weigh in as well.

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. If discussion

I reserve the right to strike out or remove any comments made by users who are not neutral and in good standing.

No consensus defaults to the status quo.

Good standing

 * At least 1,000 edits in mainspace
 * At least 30 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 enforceable upon my acceptance as an administrator.

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.

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