Tony Sidaway wrote:

It's a stick of dynamite. If for the sake of the project you need to do something and the rules are in the way, you may take it upon yourself to emply the dynamite. If when the smoke clears there is agreement that things are better than they would have been otherwise, there may be a little polite applause. Otherwise you'd better just reverse what you did, apologise, and move on.

Indeed. From [[m:Bash]]:

<Tony_Sidaway> What did Ed do, exactly? Delete VfD? <DavidGerard> yep. <DavidGerard> deleted vfd. <DavidGerard> :-O <DavidGerard> just the front index page, not the daily pages ;-) <Tony_Sidaway> Hmmm. I had no idea this little VfD would become a cause celebre. <Tony_Sidaway> "You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"

- d.