I made a brief mention of this elsewhere but I ll expand on it here You re taking the wrong tack We re not about rules here Even the editors like myself who get saddled with the process wonk millstone are not mostly about rules We re about common sense and respect and honesty So any appeal to the rules or loopholes therin is doomed to fail Not only to fail but to rub the stink of wiki lawyering into you to a degree that is darn hard to scrub out I know it it s nonsensical in some respects You re mad about absolute power being unchecked but find that your actions have highly restrictive limits placed upon them and you re not even allowed to argue about it Sort of like the real world eh So first things first remember that the power structure here is not monolithic That means that people probably aren t trying to be perverse Different laws for every cop so to speak So don t to shoot too many sparks at people who are trying to do their best Which is most of them Secondly you want you vote to count try to make your case simply disspassionately and with evidence to support it Something like While I understand that the desire for smoothly running blah blah of the editors without suffrage to date blah blah only three have between 150 and blah blah spirit of the law blah blah Mostly just normal common sense straight talk And then go and edit some articles It s great fun which is why you re here to begin with right Come and ask on my talk page I ve got 1000 things to do that will be a hoot Copy edit four or five porn articles and you ll be ill with laughter Or maybe just ill as actual milage may vary