QUOTE(JoseClutch @ Mon 14th July 2008, 9:11am)
QUOTE(Rootology @ Mon 14th July 2008, 11:40am)
The bigger question: If everything in Wikipedia is required (Foundation rules) to be decided by consensus, why is this one thing--removal of permissions--exempt on English Wikipedia?
All the other projects seem to run just fine with community desysop.
If you could develop a consensus to implement a procedure for desysoping admins on English Wikipedia, it'd be implemented. There's not an exemption, there's a consensus to not desysop except by ArbCom, or at least a lack of consensus to desysop in any other fashion.
Well, no, theres not a consensus not to do it. Theres simply no "written" process to do it, at this time. If the community decided to desysop someone, it would happen, if there was consensus to do it, and the AC or Jimbo or the WMF couldn't do but "jack" and "shit" about it, to paraphrase Bruce Campbell. Everything has to be by consensus, full stop. It's a rule from the Foundation.
Further, can someone please force Tony to stop trolling the Proposed Decision talk page? He's like a nonstop fart now, choking out everything with his adorable pet views.