Why was this archived?

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I fail to understand the proffered justification for the archiving of the above, and the proposal of a "refined" proposal.

As can be seen from both the "archived" proposal above and the discussion on it, the proposal had huge support.

The present proposal is terribly cumbersome; I gave up reading through it and don't plan to support it though I supported the initial one. Though continuing discussion is always fine, and revised proposals should be proffered if the initial one does not have wide support, I think it is ridiculous that the whole proposal was archived in this particular case. And that yet further proposals, discussion, and straw polls are needed all over again, as if starting from zero.

A strong majority of people agreed that the initial proposal would have been a fantastic addition to Wikipedia. I propose ditching the current discussion and going with it. Dovi (talk) 13:35, 4 June 2008 (UTC)Reply

9-4 is not great support; whatever you feel about the new proposal, it's better supported by consensus then this one. Keeping this discussion open when a new proposal was floated would merely have created more heat than light.--Prosfilaes (talk) 15:36, 4 June 2008 (UTC)Reply