Board Thread:Staff/@comment-8846246-20200201073847/@comment-8846246-20200201114605

Well, as outlined in existing policy, affiliations always start in the COTP. The COA merely approves affiliations that pass the COTP and can vote to end an affiliation.

When I created the original policy; I thought it best to give power of what wikis we affiliate with to the COTP, since they are the Council of the People. But this wasn't to happen with a check by the COA, and preventing the COA from starting such a process would be a check on the COA.

But all this does remind me, the vote for this proposal is meant to be a COTP Phase 3 vote.

''During Phase 3, the COTP may vote to request to affiliate with another wiki. If passed it will then proceed to the COA's Phase 2 and if passed will require the Head Bureaucrat to request the other wiki to begin an affiliation.''