[WikiEN-l] AFD has gone to a 7 day cycle

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Risker wrote:
> Oh, and discussion closed by someone who participated.  Just as an aside.
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> Risker
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It is really about time that Wikipedia regulated the means by which 
policy changes are made.

Personally, I've long been in favour of a policy making body. However, I 
understand many people prefer the "consensus model".

But even if we stick to the consensus model, we perhaps should have a 
regularised means for closing the discussion and ruling where consensus 
lies. When we have an afd, an uninvolved admin closes. When the 
community considers adminship, a crat calls consensus.

Is there a need for the selection of a group of trusted users who can be 
called upon to to declare (after discussion) when a policy change has 
consensus has been made?

Perhaps we should have [[Wikipedia:Requests for policy change]], where 
an uninvolved crat or arb, or new class of user, closes the debate.