Jimbo Wales has agreed to work with all interested participants on a page that describes the different types of process that can be used to make decisions about Wikipedia policies and their interpretations. When we agree that the page is more or less finished, Jimbo will announce a decision based on the arguments presented there.
If you have particular ideas about how decisions should or should not be made, please present them on this page. There isn't too much there yet, but it will hopefully grow as others weigh in:
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3ADecision_Making_Process
The current options are voting and consensus-finding. Please add arguments for and against these options in an NPOV-style, and try to add other options or variants as well.
This is something, I think, every Wikipedian should be interested in to help us avoid stagnation and endless debates.
Regards,
Erik