User:Yatalu/Blog:3 new Guardians/en

Dear Brigadiers,

Today is another time to vote! To finally make use of the "Portal Guardian" usergroup, I would like to suggest the following people as our first active Portal Guardians:
 * 1) User:Plover-Y for Japanese language
 * 2) User:Cyanide3 for German language
 * 3) User:Mainframe98 for Dutch language

Candidates
Long-time user of Japanese Kirby Wiki and administrator of Japanese Community Central, Plover has been with us for several years and has done tremendous work both with Japanese translation requests (of which we get many) and in wiki organization in general.
 * 1 - Plover-Y

Cyanide is an admin of several German wikis and a VSTF; she's a long-standing and trusted Wikian as well as a Brigadier since very early on, and has already provided many translations in German.
 * 2 - Cyanide3

Mainframe is an administrator of the English BioShock Wiki and native speaker of both Dutch and Frisian language. A fairly recent member since autumn 2015, he however already provided many Dutch (and Frisian) translations as well as helped with maintenance around this wiki.
 * 3 - Mainframe98

Tasks
Their tasks and responsibilities will roughly consist of the following:
 * Like an admin, they can in-/decrease a user's babel level indicated in their Guardian language with 1.
 * The same applies when removing the user because of a babel level that is believed to be off by at least 2 levels.
 * The same also applies when adding back users who have previously been removed.
 * If there is a disagreement between an admin and the Guardian for that language, the Guardian as native speaker has the decisive vote.
 * They will moderate their own language Portal and in extension anything on the wiki that is in their language.
 * They can moderate the Wikia chat and operate Botalu to help chat users.
 * They can be addressed by users of their language if they have multiple accounts (Membership policy: multi-accounting is allowed but needs to be told to an admin or guardian)
 * They may send about messages to users of their language when new requests arrive, to ensure a shorter and more effective translation/correction procedure.

Briefly, a Portal Guardian will moderate their own language pretty independently and can be addressed by that language's members instead of the admin. This has two main advantages:
 * No admin-user language barrier: Portal Guardian can talk in the user's native language.
 * Administrative/moderating duties spread over multiple users to even out the workload (it's very tiring for me, guys!).

Voting process
Voting will continue until the evening (UTC) of July 5th, so it will last week. Please cast your votes the following way:
 * Use the voting templates: Support - Neutral - Oppose - Comment
 * Write your vote in three items (1 2 3) per user or write the username next to the vote, so we know which vote goes for whom.
 * Please write a reason (in any language) for every vote, even as short as "I agree with (insertusername)".

Counting votes

 * Candidates have veto for their own candidacy: if one of the candidates opposes his/her own candidacy, they will not be made Portal Guardian even if all other users support their promotion.
 * Only votes with a written reason will be counted; votes without reason will be ignored in the count.
 * Support adds 1, neutral/comment adds 0, oppose removes 1 point to the count.
 * The end result must be at least +2.
 * Every user only gets one vote per candidate, but votes can be changed before July 5. If you vote twice, the last vote will count.