::Hasteur, I really hope your action here will not backfire, not just on you, but on the entire project. Provided an admin follows the actual guidelines, we have each usually taken a good deal of independence in how we interpret them. When we really disagree, we deal with it by persuasion, which sometimes works. or by patiently dealing with individual instances. It's certainly the rule that no project is autonomous, and an argument that it should be will not succeed.  Had you asked me, I would have given my usual advice: nobody who every goes to arbcom  comes out the better for it. The better remedy would have been to continue to deal with his improper deletions in detail. ''''''