On 10/05/07, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
River Tarnell wrote:
David Gerard:
Local consensus with effects outside the local consensus zone isn't usefully consensus.
okay, so is there a page / policy somewhere that describes what procedure is required to make changes on enwiki?
The usual procedure for requests for new namespaces is to ignore them until they have overwhelming community support, including a vote.
... because that way it's very unlikely those complaining will be listened to by those complaining about the complaining. Or something.
http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/2007/05/02/revealed-why-the-community-is-on-c...
Imagine herding 4,000+ cats ...
- d.