On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
Admins make decisions which affect the whole Wikipedia. Replace 'contains a Z' with 'contains a BADSITE' or 'has a spoiler warning' or any other global change.
Approximately 2 million articles contain a Z
Approximately five articles contained a link that was removed under BADSITES.
Perhaps the analogy is not quite as strong as you make out?
The fact that the rule doesn't affect many articles overall doesn't matter, if you happen to be one of the ones affected.
(Besides, spoiler warnings affected 45 *thousand* articles.)