Comment by Kim_Bruning
4 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_no...
Wikipedia is not a democracy, or at least it isn't supposed to be. Democracies can do things like decide that pi=3[citation needed]. Some bits look superficially like democratic procedures though. This can catch people by surprise and the outcome of diverse processes can be different to what one might expect.
I do agree with CDrost that some politics is involved. I also traditionally did not agree with the way "Notability" has grown. Originally IIRC it was an eventualist criterion to rescue articles without sources (or bad sources) from deletion... because if things are (obviously) notable, one will definitely be able to find sources eventually.
Now somehow the way notability works has been inverted, even allowing deletion of sourced articles.
There is a parable here about processes getting misread/worn down over time, but I don't quite have all the bits together to write it out in full.
Finally note that most wikipedia processes can be initiated by non-admins, and often are.