Eclecticology (Ray Saintonge) wrote in part:
In the wake of a highly complex process over the logo, the painful Votes for Deletion, and now NPOV votes on an individual article it becomes clear that voting is a technique for majorities to marginalize minority opinions.
I rather like the voting procedure for the logo. It demonstrated the practical problems with voting quite well, yet led to a largely inconsequential effect on Wikipedia itself. (Largely inconsequential not because the logo is unimportant, but because there were several good logos, and any would have been fine.) When we can make a logo vote go smoothly and with minimal acrimony, /then/ we'll be in a position to adapt voting to the content!
In the meantime, have Ed and mav accepted my nominations for mediator? (Is mav even reading this list right now???)
-- Toby