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

[Ray Saintonge]

Thomas Dalton 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.
The fact is that it takes more than a consensus to get things done.  If 
there is a general and obvious consensus to do something, and nobody 
accepts the responsibility to act upon that consensus, then the 
consensus might just as well have been to do nothing.

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