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

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Carl Beckhorn [mailto:cbeckhorn at fastmail.fm]
>Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 06:15 AM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] BLP, and admin role in overriding community review
>
>On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 05:44:51AM +0100, David Gerard wrote:
>> Neutrality, no original research and verifiability are not trumpable
>> by consensus, or even WP:CONSENSUS.
>
>You're stretching here. WP:V and WP:NOR are en.wikipedia policies, not 
>foundation principles, and could certainly be overridden or overthrown 
>by sufficient consensus. They were established by consensus and derive 
>their authority from consensus anyway. I believe it is the case that 
>en.wp is rare amoung projects in having a verifiability policy at all.
>
>One foundation issue that hasn't been mentioned in this discussion is 
>the "wiki process" as a central method of deciding content. 
>
> - Carl

I think you are the one that's stretching. Verifiability and No original research are fundamental policies and enforced as such.

Fred