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Closing Votes of confidence

Should the policy at WQ:VOC be revised to allow anyone to close a vote of confidence? When last I checked this closer was not a bureaucrat. ~ Ningauble (talk) 19:45, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Strictly speaking, Cirt didn't "close" the discussion, he merely hatted it. That is to say, he didn't make a declaration of what the result of the discussion was. Cirt's follow-up request at Meta is slightly ambiguous - it could be taken as announcing a result, or as asking a steward to evaluate the discussion and make a decision based on that evaluation. However, it lends itself more to the first interpretation. I do think we should clearly delineate who can close a confidence vote, and it certainly should not be an involved editor. BD2412 T 19:56, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

I am not seeing the ambiguity. He neglected to post a closing statement here, but he clearly closed it, archived it, and requested removal by a Steward with a closing statement there.

I think it is clearly delineated that it should be a Bureaucrat, and I fully agree that a vote should not be closed by the person who made the motion. ~ Ningauble (talk) 20:21, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

True. The removal of rights can always be reversed. I will ask an uninvolved bureaucrat to officially close the discussion. BD2412 T 20:28, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

My apologies, I hadn't read that last line, and thought that consensus was clear in this case, and thought that Bureaucrats didn't have the ability to remove sysop rights at this website. -- Cirt (talk) 20:49, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Bureaucrats don't have the ability to remove sysop rights; nevertheless, closing discussions relating to user rights is a matter for 'crats. BD2412 T 20:58, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

Understood. Got it. Message received. Communication comprehended. Transmission internalized. Thank you. -- Cirt (talk) 20:59, 6 February 2015 (UTC)