I disagree that you set our own social norms by concensus sic you meaning the community not Heironymous I agree that there appears to be such a rule or your claimed practice but in my experience consensus is honored far more in the breach than the actual observance Indeed one of my repeated criticisms against Dodo was the fact that he certainly didn t wait for any sort of consensus to develop and in fact he directly prevented such a consensus simply by reverting in minutes or hours rather than allowing that consensus to develop I think instead the consensus claim is primarily used in order to attack rather then to defend In one posting for example Dodo actually claimed that I hadn t obtained a consensus that would allow me to make an edit I have never seen any other person make such a weird claim but on the other hand I haven t seen anybody criticize Dodo for that obvious gaffe I viewed that comment as borderline nuts and I have seen no indication that any other poster has taken the reasonable position that Dodo has himself repeatedly violated the rules that WP is claimed to be operating under Do I believe that the average WP user goose steps No I think it s much more likely see above that posters tend to be self motivated and control freaks are powerfully motivated to maintain an actual practice which is very different than is claimed by rule or ostensible practice If I had more time I d see if I could see statistics on the persons who have posted here How many edits How many reverts Etc I feel certain a pattern is present