Erik Moeller wrote:
On 6/15/07, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
I'd generally tend more to say "Anyone who cannot accept that consensus could conceivably change on anything, any day, and that no decisions are final, probably is working on the wrong project." Don't necessarily like that sometimes, but I really don't see it being changed or [[Wikipedia:Binding decisions]] getting made into policy anytime very soon.
The idea that the recent Daniel Brandt deletion resembles anything like a changed consensus is, frankly, absurd. It was nothing but deletion by attrition and broken process.
Perhaps the article should have been deleted, perhaps not. But those who proudly point to the Brandt AfD as a sign of policy maturity are misguided; indeed, the Brandt deletion wars only showcase some of the fundamentally mistaken assumptions in the AfD process.
It would be wrong to treat the Brandt process as typical of anything. Too many people were too emotionally involved for it to resemble anything that happens anywhere else. Looking at what happens in a smooth delete and a smooth keep would be more instructive.
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