On 6/20/07, Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
[[Wikipedia_talk:Spoiler]]
Is it really fair to delete 45000 spoiler warnings and claim that the failure to undelete them is "consensus"? (Especially when it turns out there actually were hundreds restored, but they kept getting deleted anyway)
No, absolutely not, just as it isn't fair to add 45000 spoiler warnings and claim that the failure to delete them is "consensus".
This is not the dead issue people have claimed it is, and 45000 is just the last number anyone's bothered to count. It seems blatantly obvious to me that nobody's going to be able to restore 45000 spoiler warnings; deleting them is easy, but restoring one is impossible without reading the whole article to figure out where the right place for them is. Particularly without AWB-like software. And creating "consensus" by unilaterally making an impossible-to-reverse mass change should disturb anyone, regardless of their opinion on spoiler warnings.
"Creating consensus through unilateral action" doesn't disturb me, but saying that an issue as contested as spoiler warnings has a consensus for any particular position does.