-----Original Message----- From: Joe Szilagyi [mailto:szilagyi@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 03:43 PM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BLP, and admin role in overriding community review
On 5/23/07, Fred Bauder fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
Consensus never trumps policy.
Fred, unless things have changed since I was editing... didn't consensus form policy via actions on wiki? As in, everyone does something. It becomes standard process. Standard process becomes policy. Policyizing encodes and further enforces it, until another huge consensus shift moves the policies in a different direction.
There is nothing in BLP or previous ArbCom endorsing your statements--is this a new desired policy or modification and expansion of BLP? If so, who proposed it for the community to accept or reject, and when? A small group of admins does not unilaterally decide policy, and ArbCom doesn't make policy.
I asked as well,
What other cases and articles has this happened in, before, with this
method?
You said:
I don't think it has.
In other words, you just made up this new policy change? If not, please cite where it has widespread support.
Regards, Joe http://www.joeszilagyi.com
Wikipedia:Biograpies of living persons is policy. There is no basis for modifying it or overruling it by consensus or by practice. To the extent possible it will be strictly interpreted and enforced.
Fred