[WikiEN-l] William M. Connoley, admin? (was: Running the asylum)

Sat Jul 16 16:01:30 UTC 2005

On 7/16/05, Michael Turley <michael.turley at gmail.com> wrote:
> The reason 70/30 can be a "no" is a core principle of Wikipedia:
> Wikipedia operates on consensus, not majority.
> 
> Instead of counting votes, consider the standard to be "serve the
> majority, but don't take any actions that seriously offend a
> significant number of minority members".
> 
> If you think of it this way, it becomes much clearer why we don't
> simply count votes, and why a bureaucrat may even use their discretion
> to not promote at 80/20 occasionally.

70/30 in favour of something would probably do on VfD, for example,
but bear in mind that most admins are elected basically unopposed. For
30% of the users who have schlepped all the way to [[WP:RFA]] to vote
against someone is fairly high within that particular context.

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Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com