Wikipedia:Requests for de-adminship/Proposal 2

This proposed policy will lay out a process by which members of the community can vote to remove a user's sysop privileges. The current policy (which works on a case-by-case basis) is at Requests for de-adminship.

Please feel free to edit this proposal - it isn't "owned" by anyone.

Petition
In order for a vote to begin, there must be a successful petition. The petition must be signed by ten logged-in users, including three administrators. In order to prevent sockpuppetry, each petitioner's first edit must have occurred at least one month before the petition is created, and every petitioner must have at least 100 total edits. For example:

Voting
After a successful petition has received ten valid signatures, an administrator will close the petition. Two days after the petition is closed, a vote shall begin. The vote will last for seven days. The qualifications for voters are identical to the qualifications for the petitioners: voters must be logged in; their first edit must have occurred at least one month before the vote begins; and they must have at least 100 total edits.

If an administrator receives a majority of "no confidence" votes after seven days have passed, a steward will remove his sysop privileges. If the vote is divided exactly, the voting shall be extended for exactly one day. If, after one day, the voting is still at 50%, the user will remain an administrator.

Example Vote

 * ugen64 has violated [these policies], as illustrated by [these diffs].

Confidence
''These voters have confidence in ugen64 and wish him to remain an admin.
 * 1) vote
 * 2) vote
 * 3) vote

No Confidence
''These voters have no confidence in ugen64 and believe he should no longer be an admin.
 * 1) vote
 * 2) vote
 * 3) vote

Comments
These users don't want to vote, but they have something important to say.
 * Ducks in a pram
 * 1) Pelican crap
 * 2) Ducksheep is god
 * 3) Kate rocks!

Specific Issues
The community may vote only once each year on a specific administrator, and not within one year of that administrator's original promotion. If, within that time, some terrible calamity occurs, the matter will have to be carried out through the normal "snail de-adminship" procedures.
 * You mean we de-admin snails? I'd say that's discriminative.