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{{Policy|suspended|[[GWW:ELECT]]<br />[[GWW:ELECTION]]<br />[[GWW:ELECTIONS]]}}

The only regularly scheduled elections are to fill [[Guild Wars Wiki:Adminship#Bureaucrats|bureaucrat]] seats, with a term length of 12 months. The process here is an advisory election based on approval voting mixed with disapproval voting. Any special elections or elections with deviations from these rules should first have an explicit community consensus.

Any registered user may be nominated as a candidate by creating a candidate subpage at Guild_Wars_Wiki:Elections/''<election subpage>''/''<candidate name>'' and adding a link to the list on the election subpage. Self-nominations are allowed. The form and updating of this page is mostly up to the candidate, and might contain a candidate statement, Q&A, etc. General discussion should go on its talk page.

This stage should normally be set to last 7 days.

==Stage 2: Discussion==

Users are encouraged to ask questions of the candidates regarding their candidacy and suitability and the candidates are expected to answer these queries in a timely fashion. Users on both sides are expected to give convincing arguments as to the suitability of a candidate and to debate the relative merits of various candidates. These reasons and arguments may be used as a means of persuading other users to change their position. In addition, these discussions play an important role in determining elections with very close vote tallies. While informed criticisms (preferably backed up by links to evidence) are welcomed, unwarranted [[GWW:NPA|personal attacks]] are not.  Candidates are allowed to campaign for themselves during this stage.

At the end of this stage, a summary of the discussion should be compiled to quickly identify all major points for consideration.

This stage should normally be set to last 3 days.

Regular editors under a registered account may add one approval vote or one disapproval vote for each candidate by signing their name in the appropriate section on candidate subpages, subject to the conditions listed below:

* A user cannot vote twice for the same candidate.

* A user must have made [[Special:MyContributions|more than 100 edits]] (excluding the User, ArenaNet, Feedback, and Guild namespaces and their respective talk namespaces) before this stage begins.

* Anonymous votes (i.e. IP votes) are not accepted.

* Proxy votes (i.e. helping another to cast a vote) are not accepted.

* Votes cast before or after this stage are not accepted.

* Voting eligibility cannot be transferred or exchanged.

To support a candidate, sign your support onto that candidate's subpage. Supporters are encouraged to give a reason for their vote on the talk page, to lend credence or weight to their decision. Similarly, to oppose a candidate, sign your opposition on that candidate's subpage. An explanation for the disapproval on the talk page is also encouraged. ''Although this stage, unlike Stage 2, is not exclusively for discussion, discussion and campaigning, as outlined above, can and should continue during this stage.''  Any questions that were not addressed during Stage 2 can be addressed in continued discussion on the talk pages.

This stage should normally be set to last 11 days.

==Stage 4: Deciding winners==

Winners are decided upon by the results of the voting in stage 3. The candidate with the highest positive vote tally is considered the winner.  If there are multiple terms to be filled, the longest term goes to the highest ranking winning candidate and so on down the line. A vote tally is defined as the difference between the amount of supporting votes (positive) and opposing votes (negative). If, at the end of stage 3, several candidates have an equal vote tally, a runoff vote is held between those candidates. In that vote, different from stage 3, each voter only has 1 vote. Stage 4 is expanded to 7 days to allow for voting.

If no candidate has a positive vote tally at the end of stage 3, a new election should be started immediately beginning from stage 0.  Only if no new candidates enter the election, the positive vote balance requirement is lifted.  

* [[Guild Wars Wiki:Elections/2012-02 bureaucrat election]]

* [[Guild Wars Wiki:Elections/2009-06 bureaucrat election]]

* [[Guild Wars Wiki:Elections/2009-04 bureaucrat election]]

* [[Guild Wars Wiki:Elections/2008-10 bureaucrat election]]

* [[Guild Wars Wiki:Elections/2008-08 bureaucrat election]]

* [[Guild Wars Wiki:Elections/2008-02 bureaucrat election]]

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