Thread:Sebolto/@comment-104549-20200211013950/@comment-1998339-20200211102329

I would back such a motion without hesitation. Personally, I don't even see the need for a vote. I've been tacitly enforcing the MOS since ascending to Moderator anyway, often citing "precedent" or "the need for consistency" as my rationale for bringing articles into compliance with its most critical tenets&mdash;restoring its contents would be little more than a formality at this point.

The problem with opening this issue to the wider community is the likelihood of its being shot down. Historically, this wiki's community has always been averse to the imposition & enforcement of seemingly byzantine policies like the Image Policy, & understandably so&mdash;most users just want to create their fan characters in peace, not spend hours poring over a tutorial or policy overview page. Though many articles already abide by the most critical parts of the MOS, I expect that any vote to formally restore it would be met by default with a fair degree of knee-jerk resistance to the perceived imposition of further red tape, & therein lies the problem. In my opinion, we've desperately needed the MOS for some time&mdash;without it, standardization becomes next to impossible, & attempts to informally enforce it on the basis of "precedent" & "consistency" rest upon shaky justification at best. My fear is that we won't get another chance to get the MOS back if the vote fails.

As you say, Bac's revisions were unilaterally imposed without the consultation & support of the wider community. Bureaucrat or not, all members of the administrative team are subject to & bound by the same policies as regular users&mdash;in my opinion, the act of making unsupported changes to those policies simply on the basis of one's uncontested authority as sole Bureaucrat constitutes an abuse of power on "I am the Senate wiki" levels. I hesitate to cavalierly equate Bac's revisions with borderline vandalism, but I say we act as we generally do when users make impermissible edits to the contents of pages not belonging to them&mdash;revert & be done with it.