Ryan Delaney wrote:
The RFC *was* fuckheaded, but there might have been a point somewhere in the nonsense. That admins can execute as much discretionary power when it comes to what "consensus" means in an AFD is worrisome; it implies that the closing admin can alter the result of the vote substantially according to whatever arbitrary view he or she might have on deletion. Tony doesn't think this is a problem, because (I get the impression-- please correct me if I'm wrong here) that he's happy that he can close AFDs with an inflated standard for consensus, because he wants more articles to be kept. Whatever you think about the question of whether more articles need to be kept,
No, this is a misrepresentation of what happened. He was RFCed for following the actual deletion policy.
- d.