[WikiEN-l] We need a policy against vote-stacking

[Steve Block]

Philip Welch wrote:
> On 5/6/06, Steve Bennett <stevage at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Why not just scrap the concept of a vote entirely, and make it more
>> like a judge deciding a case.
> 
> Because then the judges (closing admins) have discretionary power,  
> and in that situation, decisions are made by admin aristocracy, not  
> consensus.
> 
> I'm willing to accept a degree of admin aristocracy, so I consider  
> this worth consideration. But we should be under no illusions about  
> what's going on here.
> 

But that's the process as stands now, in that per [[Wikipedia:Deletion 
guidelines for administrators]], "Administrators necessarily must use 
their best judgment, attempting to be as impartial as is possible for a 
fallible human, to determine when rough consensus has been reached."

An admin is supposed to weigh the debate, and also take into account 
that the three key policies cannot be over-ridden by a consensus formed 
in a deletion debate.

The admin has always had the discretion in calling the outcome.  Killing 
the idea it was about counting votes was the whole reason the name was 
changed to afd.

Steve block


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