Forum:Closing and Removing of Site Discussions

The issue that this forum comprises of is an issue that I have personally have had a problem with for quite some time. Simply put: I do not believe that users who are not administrators should be closing site discussions. I believe this for the same reason that administrators are entrusted with the ability to delete and lock articles, block unruly users, and make revisions to the wiki interface. Users who do not have the ability to enforce the outcome should not be closing discussions, especially when it comes to editing the policy, editing the wiki interface, enforcing a new rule, making edits to be done by a bot, etc. As Wikipedia states here, non-administrators should not be closing the vast majority of discussions. While this isn't Sonic News Network policy, I believe it should be. It's honestly best left to an administrator to interpret consensus. Users should not say "If no one else has an objection, then I'll close the discussion". Again, this should be left to an administrator, even in cases of strong opposition. I know regular users want to help, and I can already think of quite a few users who will oppose because they want to close these discussions. I've seen quite a few cases in which non-administrators do not even wait an appropriate amount of time before closing said discussions. Honestly, it's really best left to an administrator to close these discussions. -- 20:55, May 22, 2013 (UTC)