On 12/12/05, David Gerard fun@thingy.apana.org.au wrote:
Mark Gallagher wrote:
Such votes should not be counted, and as far as I'm aware generally are not counted (if I'm wrong, you can expect to see my newly-adminified arse on Deletion Review rather a lot over the coming months). WP:NOT a democracy, AFD:NOT a vote.
Tony Sidaway got RFCed for not doing a strict numerical count. I said the RFC was completely fuckheaded (which it was), and then Ed deleted VFD. So there's some historical precedent for your view ;-)
- d.
Doing things by the book means that conflict is controled. Stop doing things by the book and the conflict is widened and becomes less predictable.
-- geni