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Requests for adminship and bureaucratship update

No current discussions. Recent RfAs, recent RfBs: (successful, unsuccessful)

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Recent RfA, RfBs, and admin elections ()

Candidate	Type	Result	Date of close	Tally
				S	O	N/A	%
KylieTastic	AE	Successful	31 Jul 2025	374	66	101	85
Kj cheetham	AE	Successful	31 Jul 2025	350	64	127	85
Ser!	AE	Successful	31 Jul 2025	314	91	136	78
Curbon7	AE	Successful	31 Jul 2025	293	87	161	77
Jlwoodwa	AE	Successful	31 Jul 2025	314	95	132	77
Smasongarrison	AE	Successful	31 Jul 2025	312	98	131	76
UndercoverClassicist	AE	Successful	31 Jul 2025	307	97	137	76
CoconutOctopus	AE	Successful	31 Jul 2025	315	110	116	74
Hinnk	AE	Successful	31 Jul 2025	260	100	181	72
Hilst	AE	Unsuccessful	31 Jul 2025	233	117	191	67
Pbritti	AE	Unsuccessful	31 Jul 2025	250	126	165	66
Patient Zero	AE	Unsuccessful	31 Jul 2025	250	130	161	66
Usernamekiran	AE	Unsuccessful	31 Jul 2025	232	127	182	65
Darth Stabro	AE	Unsuccessful	31 Jul 2025	167	205	169	45
North8000	AE	Unsuccessful	31 Jul 2025	108	323	110	25
Vestrian24Bio	AE	Unsuccessful	31 Jul 2025	56	341	144	14

July 2025 administrator elections

Administrator Elections | Schedule

• The July 2025 administrator elections are set to proceed.
• We plan to use the following schedule:
  • Jul 9 – Jul 15: Candidate sign-up
  • Jul 18 – Jul 22: Discussion phase
  • Jul 23 – Jul 29: SecurePoll voting phase
• If you have any questions, concerns, or thoughts before we get started, please ask at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.

–Novem Linguae (talk) 13:09, 5 July 2025 (UTC)

Administrator Elections | Call for Candidates

Administrator Elections | Call for Candidates

The administrator elections process has officially started! Interested editors are encouraged to self-nominate or arrange to be nominated by reviewing the instructions at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/July 2025/Candidates.

Here is the schedule:

• July 9–15 - Call for candidates
• July 18–22 - Discussion phase
• July 23–29 - SecurePoll voting phase

Please note the following:

• The requirements to run are identical to RFA—a prospective candidate must be extended confirmed.
• Prospective candidates are advised to become familiar with the community's expectations of administrators, which are much higher than the minimum requirement of having extended confirmed status. This includes reviewing successful and unsuccessful RFAs, reading the essay Wikipedia:Advice for RfA candidates, and possibly requesting an optional poll on their chances of passing.
• The process will have a seven day call for candidates phase, a two day pause, a five day discussion phase, and a seven day private vote using SecurePoll. Discussion and questions are only allowed on the candidate pages during the discussion phase.
• The outcome of this process is identical to making a request for adminship. There is no official difference between an administrator appointed through RFA versus administrator elections.
• Administrator elections are also a valid means of regaining adminship for de-sysopped editors.

Ask any questions about the process at the talk page. A separate user talk message will be sent to official candidates with additional information about the process.

If you are interested in the process, please make sure to watchlist the appropriate pages. A watchlist notice will be added when the discussion phase opens, and again when the voting phase opens.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:11, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

Discussion on G6 for untranscluded RfAs

For watchers of this page, there is a discussion taking place on whether G6 applies to untranscluded RfAs. —Fortuna, imperatrix 17:16, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

Administrator Elections | Discussion phase

Administrator Elections | Discussion phase

The discussion phase of the July 2025 administrator elections is officially open. As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

• July 18–22 - Discussion phase (we are here)
• July 23–29 - SecurePoll voting phase
• July 30–c. Aug 3 - Scrutineering phase

We are currently in the discussion phase. The candidate subpages are open to questions and comments from everyone, in the same style as a request for adminship. You may discuss the candidates at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/July 2025/Discussion phase.

On July 23, we will start the voting phase. The candidate subpages will close again to public questions and discussion, and everyone will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote totals cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's totals during the election. You must be extended confirmed to vote.

Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last approximately four days, or perhaps a little longer. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page (you may want to watchlist this page) and transcluded to the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and must also have received a minimum of 20 support votes. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").

Any questions or issues can be asked on the election talk page. Thank you for your participation. Happy electing.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:52, 18 July 2025 (UTC)

Administrator Elections | Voting phase

Administrator Elections | Voting phase

The voting phase of the July 2025 administrator elections has started and continues until July 29 at 23:59 UTC. You can participate in the voting phase at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/July 2025/Voting phase.

As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

• July 23–29 – Voting phase
• July 30–c. Aug 3 – Scrutineering phase

In the voting phase, the candidate subpages will close to public questions and discussion, and everyone who qualifies to vote will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote totals cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's vote total during the election. The suffrage requirements are similar to those at RFA.

Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for approximately four days, perhaps longer. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page (this is a good page to watchlist), and transcluded to the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and a minimum of 20 support votes. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").

Any questions or issues can be asked on the election talk page. Thank you for your participation. Happy electing.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:36, 23 July 2025 (UTC)

Gender balance in elections

I have done a quick skim through the candidates in this latest election, and while I don't have enough data to claim any statistical confidence, and five of the 16 don't have a gender stated obviously enough for me to notice, but from what I can see we had four female and seven male candidates in the last 16, with five undisclosed gender (yeah I may have missed one or two). But the successful candidates were split three male, three female and three undeclared, while the unsuccessful candidates included four male and one female. I suspect we need some more elections to confirm a pattern, but from this I think we have a bit more evidence to support the theory that ladies are more likely to wait until they are confident that they meet the criteria, and we can at least entertain the hypothesis that there may be something about the election process that is tempting more of our female editors to run for RFA. So early days, it is only the second election, but this may be helping our gender imbalance as well as our RFA shortage. ϢereSpielChequers 18:20, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

Well that's a fun fact that it was split so evenly! I'm not sure I'm fully on board with the hypothesis, but I have to imagine that quality female nominators, such as Femke and Theleekycauldron, are also making quite an impact. Those two are newer to the nominating game and have found some great admins, and if someone prefers a female nominator, I definitely encourage them to reach out to either person. Hey man im josh (talk) 18:37, 1 August 2025 (UTC)

Just a one-off observation, but I will note that both of the admins who asked me to stand for RfA in 2007 were women. Donald Albury 19:07, 1 August 2025 (UTC)