User Rights Review (2019)

Article XIV: Demotions

 * A. General. A user may be demoted for various reasons, including, but not limited to: resignation, retirement, inactivity, violating the rules, abuse of rights, and/or disruptive behavior.
 * B. Retirement and resignation. Any user who wishes to no longer hold a promoted position and thus retires or resigns can demote themselves. They may notify a bureaucrat to have their rights removed as well. If a bureaucrat resigns or retires and fails to remove their rights, Fandom Staff will be contacted to demote them.
 * C. Demotion due to policy violations, power abuse, and disrupting the community
 * 1. Demotion of a rollback, chat moderator, discussion moderator, or an assistant must be done so by a majority vote of all administrators.
 * 2. Demotion of a chat moderator, discussion moderator, or an assistant must be done so by a majority vote of all bureaucrats. The rest of the administration (sysop only) may overrule the decision by a majority vote.
 * 3. 2. Demotion of an administrator or bureaucrat must be done so through the user rights review process . unless a unanimous vote of all other administrators determine that the administrator should be demoted.
 * 3. Demotion of a bureaucrat must be done so through the user rights review process.


 * D. Demotion due to inactivity
 * 1. A promoted user shall not be demoted due to inactivity without communication between the user in question and the rest of the administration.
 * 2. When a promoted user becomes inactive for two (2) months, bureaucrats shall discuss this with the user in question, to understand their intentions on whether or not to continue holding that promoted position.
 * 3. If a promoted user goes on an extended vacation or leave of absence lasting more than two (2) months with intentions of returning, they may notify the community to make their intentions known.
 * 4. If a promoted user is inactive for a period of at least six (6) months without communication between them and the rest of the administration, they shall be demoted.

Article XV: User Rights Reviews

 * A. General
 * 1. A User Rights Review may occur if a promoted user is violating policies, abusing their powers, and/or disrupting the community and needs to be demoted.
 * 2. In such a case, a promoted user may be suspended, pending review, in accordance with this section.
 * a. In the event that a promoted user is not following the rules and/or are abusing their powers, a bureaucrat must inform them of their wrongdoing, in case of any misinterpretations.
 * b. If the promoted user does not stand down or admit to wrongdoing and thus the bureaucrat fails to resolve the issue, they may demote the promoted user for a suspension of one (1) week.
 * c. After the suspension (clause b, above), the said bureaucrat must then create a User Rights Review discussion.
 * d. Any administrator who is demoted after their adminship is terminated, obtains "former administrator" status.
 * 3. Creating a User Rights Review discussion by any non-administrator to have another user demoted from any position is prohibited and will result in the deletion of that discussion.


 * B. Process
 * 1. If a user feels that an administrator a promoted user should be demoted, they must contact an administrator to make a request.
 * 2. The administrators will discuss whether or not the promoted user in question should have a review discussion to let the community decide if that user should be demoted.
 * 3. A majority of administrators must support a review discussion in order for it to be created in the first place. If it is determined that a majority of administrators do not support such a discussion taking place, the request is dropped.
 * 4. Once a majority of administrators support the creation of a review discussion, they must notify the administrator in question to give them the following choices:
 * a. Resign from the position. The administrators can then decide if that user should remain as an assistant or not if the user in question chooses to resign.
 * b. Write up a paragraph defending their keeping the position so that it can be presented before the demotion discussion begins. Once their defense has been submitted, the review discussion can be started immediately.
 * c. If the user does neither of these, the review discussion will be posted three (3) days after the user in question is notified.
 * 5. Once the review discussion is posted, it will be in the following format.
 * a. The administrators will list all the administrators who supported the creation of the discussion to show validation of the discussion.
 * b. Each user will have the opportunity to voice their opinion on the matter, summing up on what should be done, whether it is a complete demotion, demotion to another position, suspension, block, and/or combination.
 * c. After seven (7) days of discussion, the first stage will close. All listed options will be put up for a vote.
 * 6. In order to terminate or suspend a bureaucrat or administrator, a majority of participating administrators (50% or more) and 70% of all participants must support the termination or suspension in order for it to be valid, not counting neutrals. The discussion must last no less than seven (7) days. The promoted user in question does not have a vote or is counted in the percentage for the decision but may make comments.
 * 7. If the termination is successful, the terminated user cannot be repromoted unless they go through a successful request process.
 * 8. If the termination is unsuccessful, another demotion discussion cannot take place until one (1) month after the close of the preceding demotion discussion.