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.