[WikiEN-l] WTF? Is it suddenly OK to ignore consensus on AfD?

Sun Sep 25 05:23:51 UTC 2005

Yes, I agree totally, and that is precisely why he should have talked
to Neutrality first. I looked at it too, and this isn't some academic
discussion on the merits of true consensus decisions, this is an admin
that made a clear and obvious mistake. And that's why he should have
had the chance to defend himself first ("ohh, sorry 'bout that, i was
drunk at the time" or something)

--gkhan

On 9/25/05, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:
>
> >Even so, you really should have tried to communicate with him before
> >taking it too the list. I agree that the decision is totally absurd,
> >but you should let him defend himself first. And if he does, as you
> >suggest he will, ignore/blank you, you will have more ammo for a
> >discussion.
> >
> >
> Okay, he should have tried talking to Neutrality first.
>
> In the meantime, though, I've checked the VfD in question:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Crescent_Park_Elementary_School
> and it appears that the basic complaint is true - this was clearly _not_
> a consensus to delete. It's very clear that it isn't, too, since as
> pointed out there's actually a clear majority of votes for keep/merge
> versus delete. I'm putting this on VfU, but really, I think this should
> be a speedy undelete.
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