Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:
Without the very strict ruleset that we have (which, by the way, arose quite naturally, none of the rules excepting the core principles was forced, all of them came out from consensus) it would never work.
This is not consistent with reality. The only consensus is built by and from people who like rules. Many people just go about their daily business of improving articles in the subjects that interest them, and have done so back to a time before those rules were "adopted". A person who has done this for say three years will be completely surprised and shocked when a newbie administrator suddenly attempts to impose a rule that was "adopted by consensus" one year ago. For that newbie the rule is law, and he won't hear of having the rule reconsidered no matter how inappropriate the rule. Dedicated editors do not spend their time paying attention to the nuances of rule-making; if they did they would never get anything useful done.
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