[WikiEN-l] Anonymous page creation will be reenabled on English Wikipedia.

[John Lee]

On 10/27/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > That's a matter of wording. GM proposed this using the language of
> > statement (an effective technique to get things done). Ultimately, if
> > enough are/were opposed to the proposal, it wouldn't be carried out.
>
> Sometimes wording is important. Wikipedia always requires positive
> consensus, not negative. If we can't agree on something, we stick with
> the status quo. GM's email is worded as if he intends this to work the
> other way around, and he has no authority to decide that.


GM is undoing something that there was no initial positive consensus for.
The precedent (see the original nofollow controversy) is that when a
decision does not have positive consensus behind it, there needs not be a
positive consensus to undo it.

Johnleemk