On 5/31/06, Raphael Wegmann
<raphael(a)psi.co.at> wrote:
In theory you are right, but experience shows,
that most editors
who feel offended by it, will get blocked sooner or later, because
no policy tells them, that the results of 3 month old poll is a
binding decision and ignoring it will as likely as not result in
a block.
From the page in question:
<!--
NOTE ABOUT THE IMAGE: For many days, discussions occurred and polls
were conducted on the talk pages of this article and in February 2006
the super majority (over 80% of contributing editors) decision was to
keep the image displayed as it currently is without a "linkimage" and
with no added warning template or text. Thus based upon this,
unilateral (without general consensus) removal, hiding, relocation or
resizing of this image (particularly in a repetitive fashion) will be
considered disruptive editing, detrimental to Wikipedia, and may
result in a block of your account and/or IP address.
-->
Is this not ample enough warning? Seems fairly clearly laid out to me.
Yes, it's a clearly laid out warning, but it's not a policy,
instead it actually contradicts [[WP:NBD]], which states:
Later objections to a decision might represent a change in consensus
that may need to be taken in account, regardless of whether that
earlier decision was made by a poll or other method.