It does look odd, I would open a ticket for it. They both say “Already expired” so not sure what is going on there - might be the server needs to catch up, perhaps??
Edit: And the edit by ListMYCDs is very old – April24…something NQR
MB wants to avoid destructive edits when possible. So removals tend to absolutely require 3 yes votes (and unanimous ones).
The expiry just means that it won’t fly through immediately without the chance for people to vote no; that window has passed now (and may get reopened if the edit gets a No vote, not sure), but it still needs more (unaninmous) Yes votes.
That’s not true. Even destructive edits are applied at the end of the voting period if there are no “no” votes (unless the data quality is high, but that’s rare). The three unanimous votes just close the edit before the seven-day period is over. It’s all explained here. There used to be a handy table somewhere with all the periods, but I can no longer find it. Luckily the link I posted has a pretty but very confusing flowchart for y’all to admire.
Could’ve sworn there were relatively recent changes to how destructive edits worked. But maybe there were only discussions and not actual changes, in which case this would indeed be a bug.
Still wouldn’t hurt to get the edit 3 Yes votes.
Yeah, I can confirm this is a bug. We actually get emails every hour about edits that are failing to apply (another is edit #38265250), but I’ve been busy with schema change work due on May 16th, so I haven’t been able to fix these yet. Sorry about that.