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On 10/18/05, Philip Sandifer wrote:
When did maintaining the status quo qualify as a policy change?
-Snowspinner
Show me where policy says admins can go against a consensus to keep or delete.
Policy and practice and diverge when there isn't the cultural norms to support policy. Given current practice, not only can admins go against a current consensus, but users also can, as 172 did on the VfD for Category:Totalitarian Dictators
If we have a culture where do many people think that policy is for others, and that they occasionally know a better and more efficient way, then perhaps we get what we have.
-- Silverback
On 10/18/05, actionforum@comcast.net actionforum@comcast.net wrote:
Policy and practice and diverge when there isn't the cultural norms to support policy. Given current practice, not only can admins go against a current consensus, but users also can, as 172 did on the VfD for Category:Totalitarian Dictators
If we have a culture where do many people think that policy is for others, and that they occasionally know a better and more efficient way, then perhaps we get what we have.
-- Silverback
I think it is safe to say that 172 lost the arbcom case. From time to time people make the misstake of think policy does not apply to them. Sooner or latter reality catches up.
-- geni