[WikiEN-l] We need a policy against vote-stacking

[Rob Church]

On 11/05/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
> Steve Bennett wrote:
> > On 5/10/06, Philip Welch <wikipedia at philwelch.net> wrote:
> >> On May 8, 2006, at 11:04 PM, Steve Bennett wrote:
> >>
> >>>> Because then the judges (closing admins) have discretionary power,
> >>>> and in that situation, decisions are made by admin aristocracy, not
> >>>> consensus.
> >>> Consensus already requires interpretation by admins, who have
> >>> discretinary power to ignore it.
> >> That power is strictly limited to upholding policy and Office
> >> actions. There's a difference between admins interpreting consensus,
> >> and abandoning consensus while delegating decision-making power to
> >> admins alone. The latter is utterly unacceptable.
> >
> > As you point out, when consensus conflicts with policy, admins should
> > upload policy.
>
> Er... I hope you meant "uphold" policy...

I'll have you know we're trialling Special:Makerules on the test wiki
in a month!


Rob Church