Last Updated: 2023 December 18
This page is about our democratically elected positions of UnAnything. If you're just a regular user reading through the policy, this doesn't really apply to you. Faking any of these positions will have you blocked for 1 month.
On UnAnything there are certain positions of power given to the users via democracy. While there's only one office to obtain currently, The Chair, more may open up in the future.
The Chair
The Chair is a position whose sold purpose is managing WANTED elections that elect WANTED Articles, and is given the user rights to do so if they don't have them already. This position is elected every quarter by the people, and The Chair gets to decide what pages become WANTED. Although there are many rules to break while being The Chair, it's ultimately worth having the power as to nominate articles to be WANTED.
A person must be nominated to the position of The Chair every quarter, otherwise WANTED elections can't happen.
Failure to execute the duties of The Chair, or improperly executing the Duties of The Chair may result in The Chair being banned for a week, impeached from the position, or both, at the discretion of the Administrator.
Electing The Chair
De Jure
On the 1st of March, June, September, and December, a poll(s) for the next quarter's Chair shall be held. The current Chair still has to make WANTED polls for the months of March, June, September, and December, but it is The Chair of this new poll(s) for the position who shall conclude them. The conductor(s) of this shall be any of the UnAnything Staff members within that day. If three days have passed without a poll, then users without permission otherwise may conduct just 1 poll each. The 6th option of any poll must be a blank/null vote to allow for more polls by applicable parties, as well as the viewing of the results by the party who made the poll, otherwise it is invalid. All polls then end on the 15th day of that month.
The person with the highest votes (not in total) is elected, and can accept the position of The Chair on the election post. If this doesn't happen by the 20th, the electee is considered to have resigned ex proprio motu. Other nominees may accept the position until the 25th, when any user may accept the position. If UnAnything has no Chair, then nobody is responsible for conducting these duties.
De Facto
If nobody is officially recognized as being The Chair, and someone assumes the responsibilities of The Chair, then they are The Chair. All their actions are to be recognized as being official unless they are otherwise impeached.
Chair Resignation
Resigning as The Chair
Before The Chair resides, they must perform or have already performed all their current duties, and, if given user rights for the sole purpose of facilitating these duties, must voluntarily remove them from themselves on their own user page. The Chair must alert everyone of their resignation on the original election poll(s). If they do not follow these procedures while resigning, they could be banned.
If the chair must resign on short notice due to an emergency, penalties may be wavered.
If The Chair Resigns
If The Chair resigns, any of the other nominated members may accept the position, first come first serve. If none of them accept the position of The Chair in the first 5 days of their resignation, then anyone regardless of qualification may accept the position of The Chair. If the chair has failed to conduct the Duties of The Chair, the new Chair must carry out their unfinished duties to a reasonable extent.
If The Chair is Impeached
The administrator whom impeached The Chair must carry out the Duties of The Chair until they find a suitable replacement. It may be one of the candidates, or it may be themself. Whoever it is must agree to to taking on the position.
Duties of The Chair
The Chair's duties are to create WANTED polls, and to feature WANTED articles. They have Content Moderator permissions to facilitate their duties, and are recognized as an UnAnything Staff member, if not temporarily.
Permissions
If The Chair does not have user rights to perform the Duties of The Chair, they must request them. The Chair may not be punished for being unable to execute their duties due to insufficient permissions.
Featuring Articles
Within the first 3 days of a month, The Chair must do the following:
- Put the WANTED template on the 2 newly elected WANTED articles of last month's polls, with parameter 1 being the year and month the article became WANTED.
- Protect the 2 newly elected WANTED articles so that allow only Administrators to move it, and only autoconfirmed users may edit it.
- Update the WANTED Articles list.
- Update Featured to feature the 2 newly elected WANTED articles.
- Nominate articles to be elected next month with 2 new WANTED polls on the UnAnything Forums, under the WANTED Polls category. Nominations must follow the rules for Nominating Articles listed below.
- Update Featured Poll ID have the latest Wanted Polls' IDs, found at the end of the URL of each Poll #1 and Poll #2's webpages. (Usually they will both be pretty similar numbers if you made them near the same time.)
- Add {{Nominated}} to newly nominated articles, featuring the poll the article is being nominated in in parameter 2.
- Replace {{Nominated}} with {{Nominated Old}} in last month's nominated articles, still retaining all relevant parameters from when it was nominated.
Nominating Articles
- The article in question cannot have any issues, or be under construction.
- The article must be at least 4 paragraphs worth of content.
- The article cannot already be WANTED.
- The Chair must be impartial when nominating pages. This means they cannot have bias when nominating pages or a set of pages. If The Chair plans to hold a nomination poll about a set of pages or themed set of pages, approval must be obtained beforehand. To get approval, The Chair can contact a Bureaucrat to get approval. If the Bureaucrat don't respond in 24 hours, permission is automatically given. The Chair may also conduct a poll for a week and get at least 3/5ths support for the set.
- The polls must nominate at least 4 pages each.
- No more than 2 articles can be nominated per author, and the 2 articles must be on the same poll. See the Editing Rules for what constitutes an author.
- Polls must be the same size, give or take 1 candidate.
- It is not required that the polls have pictures representing each candidate, however it would be nice.
- It is not required that the polls be tagged with the articles that they are electing, however it would be nice.
- It is not required that the polls' candidates not be nominated before, however it would be nice.
- It is not required that the polls' candidates be newly made pages, however it would be nice.