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

Sun Sep 25 17:50:26 UTC 2005

Now you're talking, but please talk to Neutrality first.

Fred

On Sep 25, 2005, at 12:33 AM, Alphax wrote:

> Bryan Derksen wrote:
>
>> Stephen Bain wrote:
>>
>>
>>> While I don't necessarily agree with the decision (I think there was
>>> no consensus either way), one can see how some of the votes might  
>>> have
>>> been given greater weight than others. For example:
>>>
>>> "Keep, we winning the fight aginst school deletionism."
>>> "Keep. I heard from Aranda56 that we needed more votes for this  
>>> article."
>>> "Keep I heard from Radman's sisters' aunts' brothers' cousins'
>>> girlfriends' sister that this needed to be kept!"
>>> "Keep."
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Also:
>> "*Delete."*
>> *"Delete*. Usual reasons."
>> "*Delete* not worthwhile"
>>
>> So disregarding "low value" votes doesn't look like it swings the  
>> vote
>> clearly in one direction or the other to me, unless one selectively
>> disregards poorly-supported votes on one side but not on the other. I
>> certainly wouldn't mind a policy encouraging disregarding such votes,
>> mind you, I just don't think it would make a difference here.
>>
>>
>
> Ok, that's it. As soon as I get the chance (eg. in a few days time), I
> will launch open a request for comments with everyone listed on
> [[m:AIW]] and [[m:ADW]], and I invite anyone who is sick of the way  
> AfD
> is being run to join me.
>
> And if that doesn't go anywhere, I'll open an arbitration case.
>
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