User blog comment:NickyLinnea/Bureaucrats/@comment-2201793-20100826001112/@comment-3122926-20100826104201

We can have monarchy... as in one executive leader... But it IS kinda obvious that everyone has to express their views on different matters. The subjective viewpoint of one editor doesn't provide a predicament for all editors to ensure that the wiki progresses in the right direction. What Obsidion has been doing is taking the opinions and consensus from others before he does anything... When many people make constructive oppositions or opinions, a change or addition can be done peacefully. Even protecting pages on wikis is done with the consent of others. When Sasank protected the Famed Items article and some unregistered contributors complained about not being able to edit it, I called a vote on the talk page and it was concluded (though there was a minor population of voting) that it should be closed to prevent editing clashes and vandalism of unregistered contributors. An admin on the wiki is just an editor given a few extra buttons to make changes. But he cannot make a change if there is opposition, followed by no consensus, on the subject.