On 6/27/07, Eugene van der Pijll eugene@vanderpijll.nl wrote:
Marc Riddell schreef:
One more volley: Like it or not - threatening to some or not; what's
needed
here is a strong leader.
Why? What exactly would this strong leader do? Would he take over the functions of existing Wikipedia structures (WP:RFA, maybe? DRV? ArbCom?) Or do you see anything that needs to be done that is not done today?
Can you please give some examples what the strong leader would do on Wikipedia?
Speaking from experience, the process of policymaking is so haphazard and difficult to handle because of the nebulous concept of "consensus" (for more, see Zoney's recent post on consensus). Practical policy changes, e.g. [[WP:PROD]], are still possible because the "descriptive, not prescriptive" model applies, but for non-practical things, how will we ever come to a consensus on more abstract/meta issues? Things like the userboxen wars got sorted out eventually, but not without a lot of pain and grief that I think was unnecessary.
Johnleemk