You must have 10 or more mainspace edits before the start of polling.
An exception for discussions moderator proposals: You must have 10 discussion posts before the start of the polling. Furthermore, you must be part of the wiki's discussions for at least one week. You must fulfill both of these requirements or the "10 mainspace" requirement.
You may either
Support:
Oppose:
Comment: on an issue.
All proposals will run for one week unless discussion has not stopped after that time, in which case it may be extended at the discretion of an administrator.
All proposals require at least 2/3 supporting votes in order to pass.
When starting a poll thread, you are entitled to link it around the wiki on message walls of those who may be concerned. Abuse of this privilege will result in the proposal being disqualified and archived early.
Sign all proposals and comments with four tildes. Please remember to timestamp your proposals.
Additional information for user rights requests[]
A user who is being promoted or demoted may request that a thread regarding them is closed. In this event:
Promotion: user does not receive rights.
Demotion: user is automatically demoted.
Bureaucrats who witness abuse of rights may demote a user without a formal proposal.
Due to the potential for abuse, demotion requests which are seen to bully other users may be closed without warning.
A user will be demoted without a formal proposal if they are inactive for one year or longer.
Format your title such as Username (Rank) replacing username and rank with the appropriate information.