2008/10/18 David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com:
Changing a previously widely accepted standard should take much wider discussion than this has received, and over a longer period of time.
It got discussed over months and by rather a wide selection of people (they kept starting to delink dates and people kept noticing).
It's very easy at Wikipedia for a few people to move in fast and get something changed; the test is whether it hold up under subsequent scrutiny.
It has repeatedly.
And even actual consent ahead of time may change quite rapidly once people truly see the implications on a large scale in the encyclopedia.
We already seen it on a fair sized scale. That you didn't notice doesn't mean it hasn't been happening.