User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-104.32.214.184-20140613124222/@comment-188432-20140613162033

The original thread descended into speculation, which is not the province of these forums. The status of the discussion is "no consensus, please go to the Howling".

It is possible for the consensus to be 'no consensus', as has long been observed on Wikipedia. And, although we are not Wikipedia, the Wikipedia notion of "no consensus" seems applicable here.

Basically what that means is that no agreement has been achieved on how to edit the article with respect to the question raised — thus the article shall not be edited in the manner proposed.

It might be unsatisfactory to you, but that's just how the cookie crumbles sometimes. While we do occasionally revisit topics, we don't do so in quick succession.

When a discussion is closed, it needs to remain closed until some time has passed and/or there's some compelling new insight to bring to the table. Otherwise you're kind of in violation of T:BOUND and T:FORUM. Since the IP has twice reopened a closed discussion, I have now blocked the IP for a month, the longer-than-usual ban length given because of prior blocks on that IP address, and the high likelihood that it was the same user on both accounts.