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Our administrative staff chose the latter. | Our administrative staff chose the latter. | ||
We then chose the most democratic, inclusive way possible to make a community decision. Through the use of a bot, we contacted ''every'' editor, registered or otherwise, which existed at the time, and | We then chose the most democratic, inclusive way possible to make a community decision. Through the use of a bot, we contacted ''every'' editor, registered or otherwise, which existed at the time, and gave them an opportunity to participate in the conversation. We also held the vote around the time of the Christmas episode of ''Doctor Who'' — a time where we have a demonstrable spike in editors. We wanted to make sure that we weren't passing the rule "in the dark of night", but rather at a time when a lot of editors tend to be on the wiki. | ||
We then left the conversation open for more than a month, as I recall, and the results were overwhelmingly in favour of disabling. | We then left the conversation open for more than a month, as I recall, and the results were overwhelmingly in favour of disabling. |
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