Erik Moeller wrote:
It's easy for us to accidentally send mixed
messages, though, as this
thread has shown. Because so many things are done in response to
community consensus, there may be an expectation that this is always
the case, and that that's just how we work.
In this instance, the confusion arose not because of an underlying
expectation that community consensus will be sought, but because
Brandon Harris explicitly stated that it would be (and neglected to
mention that he was referring to wikis other than the English
Wikipedia).
This, of course, was an honest mistake (and quite a minor one).
David Levy