[WikiEN-l] BLP, and admin role in overriding community review

[Joe Szilagyi]

On 5/23/07, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at waterwiki.info> wrote:
>
> Consensus never trumps policy.


Fred, unless things have changed since I was editing... didn't consensus
form policy via actions on wiki? As in, everyone does something. It becomes
standard process. Standard process becomes policy. Policyizing encodes and
further enforces it, until another huge consensus shift moves the policies
in a different direction.

There is nothing in BLP or previous ArbCom endorsing your statements--is
this a new desired policy or modification and expansion of BLP? If so, who
proposed it for the community to accept or reject, and when? A small group
of admins does not unilaterally decide policy, and ArbCom doesn't make
policy.

I asked as well,

> What other cases and articles has this happened in, before, with this
method?

You said:

I don't think it has.


In other words, you just made up this new policy change? If not, please cite
where it has widespread support.

Regards,
Joe
http://www.joeszilagyi.com