On 6/6/07, Joe Szilagyi szilagyi@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/6/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
There is a difference between consensus and unanimous assent. One person objecting, without discussion, does not destroy consensus.
Exactly. Tony has no 'authority' nor the right to single handedly take away Featured Article status, nor to grant it.
Why not? It's a wiki. We give people the 'authority' to single handedly call articles "stubs", to single handedly claim that an article needs cleanup, and to single handedly remove those distinctions.
For that matter, it's curiously wrong, isn't it, that any one sole person
(Raul) gets to be final arbiter of what is and isn't FA quality?
Yes, it is.
Why is
every other aspect of WP driven upwards from the community, but he is sole person there?
Some people thought it was important to have a single person choosing which articles are featured on the front page. Those of us who disagreed and thought that it should instead be chosen by a collaborative process were outvoted, and conceded. Mark was named "featured article dictator", then it was changed to "featured article director", and proceeded to extend his powers to what they are now. No one really challenged him, because those of us who wanted the process to be community pretty much stopped participating altogether in the whole featured article mess.