Moderation:Vote of Confidence

This page is for users to request the demotion of moderators. The act of demotion is restricted to those with bureaucrat status, and as such users will need to request the moderators demotion here. Constant requests for a Vote of Confidence to target a moderator is considered an abuse of the system and will be treated appropriately. There can only ever be one Vote of Confidence at a time for each moderator, any subsequent Votes of Confidence will be merged together into a single case against said moderator.

=Guidelines for Demotion Requests= Users who wish to request a moderators demotion must provide these things before requesting a moderators demotion.
 * Sufficent time between votes - As it's not ideal for a moderators position to be constantly under threat it is required that there be at least one month between Votes of Confidence for a moderator.
 * Reason for demotion - As demotions cannot be reversed unless the moderator in question goes through promotions page again, the user is asked to make sure that they are making the correct decision in envoking a vote of confidence.
 * Message to the Moderator - As demotions for moderators are usually going to be significant changes in the way they use the wiki the user whom brings up the case is also required to leave a note on the moderators talk page to let them know that there is a Vote of Confidence about them.

Before voting on whether or not a moderator is still suitable for his or her position they have two days to provide a defense on the accusations brought fourth. If the moderator does not place a defense then the case will go to voting, during this time the moderator may choose if they want to add in their defense or not.

After a user has submitted a demotion request, the users will vote on it for two weeks. The bureaucrats will then review it, and after reaching a unanimous decision, choose to either demote the Moderator or deny his or her request. After action has been taken, the request will be moved to the archive.

All users who are envoking a Vote of Confidence are requested to use this layout when lodging a request.

==ModeratorName== ===Reason=== Please place your reason here ===Defense=== Moderators, please place your defense here ===Voting===  Against  Please place Against votes here once voting has commenced  For  Please place For votes here once voting has commenced

There are two valid votes, For and Against. Vote for if you wish for the moderator to be demoted and Against if you are against the demotion.

=Requests for demotion still needing to be defended= Please place all new requests under this header.

=Requests for demotion still under voting= Please place all requests that either have a defense or are two days old under this header

=Requests for demotion still needing to be processed= Please place all requests that have completed voting under this header.