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 didnt 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 hadnt 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 havent seen anybody criticize Dodo for that obvious gaffe  I viewed that comment as borderlinenuts 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 goosesteps  No I think its much more likely see abovethat posters tend to be selfmotivated and controlfreaks are powerfullymotivated to maintain an actual practice which is very different than is claimed by rule or ostensible practice  If I had more time Id 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