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Current Coordinators

Project coordinators are responsible for maintaining all of the procedural and administrative aspects of the WikiProject, in addition to serving as the designated points-of-contact for procedural issues and concerns. They are not, however, endowed with any special executive powers nor with any authority over article content or editor conduct.

The Project Coordinator bears overall responsibility concerning the project, with the Deputy and Assistant Coordinators aiding in general and focusing on specific areas that require special attention. The Deputy Coordinator acts in the place of the Coordinator when they are unavailable.

At current, WikiProject Horror has not held an election for these positions. The positions are currently filled by interim personnel.

Responsibilities

The primary responsibility of the project coordinator is the maintenance and housekeeping work involved in keeping the project and its internal processes running smoothly; this includes a variety of tasks, such as keeping the announcement and open task lists updated, overseeing the assessment and review processes, managing the proposal and creation of task forces, and so forth. There is fairly little involved that couldn't theoretically be done by any other editor, of course—in only a few places has the coordinator been explicitly written into a process—but, since experience suggests that people tend to assume that someone else is doing whatever needs to be done, it has proven beneficial to formally delegate responsibility for this administrative work to a specified group.

The coordinator and assistants also have several additional roles. They serve as the project's designated points of contact, and are explicitly listed as people to whom questions can be directed in a variety of places around the project. They also try to regularly contribute to the reviews involving horror-related articles, looking out in particular for reviews which require additional voices. In addition, they have highly informal roles in leading the drafting of project guidelines, overseeing the implementation of project decisions on issues like category schemes and template use, and helping to informally resolve disputes and keep discussions from becoming heated and unproductive. The coordinators are not, however, a body for formal dispute resolution; serious disputes should be addressed through the normal dispute resolution process.

Election

Coordinators are elected by a simple approval vote, held every six months. Any member of the project may be a candidate; this includes current coordinators, who may be re-elected without limit. The current election process consists of a one-month sign-up period and a one-month voting period, but these times—as well as all other details of the elections—are subject to change at any time, provided that a consensus to do so exists within the project.

History

The initial discussion that led to the creation of the project coordinator positions took place in January 2009; it arose from the awareness of a similar position within the Films and Novels WikiProjects.