Commons:Valued image candidates/Promotion rules

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Candidates are promoted/declined based on the following rules. All votes are counted up to the time the nomination is closed (ie votes are never excluded for being too late). Unassessed candidates, candidates gaining an overall neutral support, and Most Valued Review (MVR) candidates where there is no clear winner, are closed as "undecided" and can be renominated at any time. An image which has previously been declined may be renominated within the same scope only if the issues leading to the original decline have been addressed.

A support vote that was made before a change of scope is not counted unless it is reconfirmed afterwards; an oppose vote is counted unless it is changed or withdrawn.

Nominations can be closed after a period of 4 or 7 days (depending on its status), but only if more than 48 hours have passed since the last vote ( Support,  Neutral, or  Oppose).

Result	Status	Action	Min. Review period
All  Support or all  Oppose votes	Supported/Opposed	Promote/decline	4 days
Unequal numbers of  Support and  Oppose votes (at least one of each)	Discussed	Promote/decline based on the majority vote	7 days
Equal numbers of  Support and  Oppose votes (at least one of each)	Discussed	Close as undecided	7 days
No votes at all	Nominated	Close as undecided	7 days

MVRs can be closed after the latest of: (a) 7 days after the last candidate was added, and (b) 48 hours after the last vote on any candidate.

Where the score which is calculated as:

score = (number of  Support) minus (number of  Oppose).