08 Aug 2004: Remove uk.media.tv.six-feet-under

From: David Mahon <xumtsfu@request.ukvoting.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 09:17:05 +0100
Subject: Result: Remove uk.media.tv.six-feet-under FAILS 8:2
Newsgroups: uk.net.news.announce,uk.net.news.config,uk.media.tv.six-feet-under

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                            RESULT OF CALL FOR VOTES

Summary: Remove uk.media.tv.six-feet-under FAILS 8:2

The proposal beats the status quo by 8 votes to 2. This is less than the
margin of 12 or more votes that is required and the proposal therefore
fails.

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Voting closed at 23:59:59 BST, 4th August 2004.

Proponent: Barry Salter <umtsfu-prop(at)southie.me.uk>
Votetaker: David Mahon <cfv_xumtsfu(at)amigo.co.uk>

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Distribution:

uk.net.news.announce
uk.net.news.config
uk.media.tv.six-feet-under

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The Results:

The results follow below in the following order:

1) Summary of Mail Received During the Voting Period
2) Result
3) Individual Vote Details
4) Votetakers Comments
5) Voting and Appeal Guidelines
6) Proposal
7) Rationale
8) Newsgroups Line

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SUMMARY OF MAIL RECEIVED DURING THE VOTING PERIOD

      13 messages were received to the voting address, of which:

      11 were valid votes
       2 were tests by the votetaker

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RESULT:

Remove uk.media.tv.six-feet-under

This was a straightforward YES/NO vote. To pass, the status quo (NO)
must be beaten by a margin of 12 or more votes.

There were only 11 votes and it was therefore impossible to beat the
status quo by the required margin of 12 or more votes. The proposal
beats the status quo by 6 votes (8:2), which is less than the required
margin, thus the proposal fails.

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INDIVIDUAL VOTE DETAILS

Paul Harper     paul%harper*ten                 Y
Barry Salter    umtsfu-prop%southie*em*ku       Y
Paul Cummins    paul%cummins*ie*ue*gro          Y
Nick Odell      themusicworkshop%ntlworld*moc   Y
John Dean       john%jdean62*fsnet*oc*ku        N
Roy Ellor       r*ellor%btclick*moc             Y
Peter Smyth     psmyth%gmx*ten                  Y
Dave Mason      xumtsfu%sarnie*gro*ku           N
Graham Drabble  graham*drabble%lineone*ten      Y
kat             kat*news%ntlworld*moc           A
Thomas Lee      tfl%psp*oc*ku                   Y

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Votetakers Comments:

A straightforward, uncomplicated vote.

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This vote was conducted by a neutral third party member of UKVoting.
UKVoting is a group of independent votetakers who count votes on behalf
of the uk.* hierarchy and other 3rd parties.

The rules under which votes for the uk.* hierarchy are taken are posted
regularly to uk.net.news.announce or can be found at the following URL:

<ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/news-info/news.answers/uk/voting>

The UKVoting web pages can be found at <http://www.ukvoting.org.uk/>

There is a five day discussion period after these results are posted to
uk.net.news.announce.  Allegations of irregularity should be sent to
control@usenet.org.uk

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PROPOSAL

That the newsgroup uk.media.tv.six-feet-under be rmgrouped.

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RATIONALE

According to <http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/newsserver/hierarchy-stats/uk/>
in the 12 months to the end of May 2004 there wer 43 posts to
uk.org.ukuug. These were broken down as follows

         There were 3 articles in June
         There were 4 articles in July
         There were 14 articles in August
         There were 0 articles in September
         There were 2 articles in October
         There were 3 articles in November
         There were 0 articles in December
         There were 0 articles in January
         There were 3 articles in February
         There were 3 articles in March
         There were 8 articles in April
         There were 3 articles in May

A Google search for the period 1st June 2003 to 31st May 2004 shows 21
threads in the period of which 6 might be on topic, 1 relates to US
screenings of the show, and 9 are spam/viruses.

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PROPONENT'S SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION

There wasn't much of a discussion about the proposal (a total of 8
posts, one of which was from Control) with only one person suggesting
the group should be spared to see if it picked up again when the new
series was broadcast in the UK, and the remainder being in agreement
with the removal, based on the posting stats.

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NEWSGROUPS LINE

uk.media.tv.six-feet-under      Discussion of "Six Feet Under" in the UK

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David Mahon

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