On 4/9/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
Absolutely. It does not happen often enough to justify a special policy anyway.
OK, I can understand that. I was thinking of what a casual AFD reader would think of seeing the nominator setting what might seem to be an arbitrary edit count number to vote in that AFD. He might not understand that it might be the only way to get a "clean close".
Consider this, a few years ago, when some yahoo would call up the office angry about an article and threatening to sue or something, Jimbo would have to go to the article and take some kind of action. Though whatever action taken was necessary, it might look to the regular editors that the "God King" was dropping out of nowhere and having his way. Therefore to clearly explain such rare but drastic actions, we came up with WP:OFFICE.