Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections

The first election was held from May 29 to June 12, 2004 and the second from June 28 to July 11, 2005. Both elections used approval voting. Angela Beesley and Florence Nibart-Devouard were elected as trustees between 2004 and 2005, and again between 2005 and 2007.

In August 2006, a was called to fill the vacancy left by Angela's resignation. Voting took place between September 1 and September 21, 2006; Erik Möller, also known as User:Eloquence, was to a term ending with the regular July 2007 election.

During April 2008, the Board was to include, most notable, two chapter-appointed seats. This resulted in elections held in June, 2008, appointing a single new member to the Board.

Further elections were held in July-August 2009, May-June 2011 and June 2013.

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The original Arbitration Committee were appointed by Jimbo Wales in December 2003, and consisted of 12 members. In making these appointments, Jimbo indicated that in the future, the Arbitrators would be elected. Arbitrators have normally been appointed for three-year terms beginning on January 1. To stagger the terms, four of the original appointments (tranche alpha) were subject to re-election after one year, and four more (tranche beta) after two years; the remaining four (tranche gamma) serving for the full three years. This results in a third of the positions being open for election on an annual basis. Historically, elections to the Arbitration Committee only advised Jimbo on who to appoint, and were not binding, Jimbo being free to appoint other people to the committee, and not to appoint those elected. While Jimbo still holds reserve powers over the committee, the established community election process now selects committee members directly.

Of the original appointees, Eloquence refused the appointment, and UninvitedCompany withdrew from the Committee shortly after it began taking cases; both of these were from tranche alpha. In order to fill these vacancies, the first elections were held in July 2004 for two members to fill the unexpired terms through to the end of 2004. In his appointments, Jimbo selected Jwrosenzweig and Raul654 to serve as temporary Arbitrators.

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