User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-1272640-20170115234322/@comment-1432718-20180311220257

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-1272640-20170115234322/@comment-1432718-20180311220257 I do.

First of all, I would like to once again remind everyone that, if you are not an admin, you should not be making pronouncements of consensus or whether a thread needs to be closed. That is up to the admins, and on these forums it is not clear by looking at names who is and isn't an admin. A new user might take someone's opinion as an official statement and act upon it. Comments that call for thread closure or that try to sum up where everyone stands will be deleted.

Second, Tardis:Do not disrupt this wiki to prove a point specifically and explicitly states: "Don't waste other editors' time by opening up discussions that are materially the same as other, concluded discussions. You may open up discussions on matters that have already been decided only when you have arguments which have not formed a part of that discussion, or other, precedent discussions on the same topic." I personally haven't been convinced that anything new has been added in this thread to the original discussion. However, at this point anyone who wants to comment should make themselves familiar with the discussion at Forum:Is The Infinity Doctors canon?, especially User:CzechOut's comments about author intent, and also make sure that any points you want to make don't cover the same ground as that already covered by the dissenters in that thread.

Lastly, it is not a good idea to assume that silence means agreement or lack of disagreement. As has been stated multiple times, after a glut of inclusion debates, including the reopening of several already closed debates, and the anger and venom that some of these debates sparked, many users, especially admins, are staying away from these debates. That doesn't imply wiki agreement with the small number of users who have posted in this thread thus far. That's one of the reasons why users should leave the determination of consensus up to the admins.

Thanks for your attention.