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On 6/27/2015 at 3:09 PM, "Wladimir J. van der Laan" <laanwj@gmail.com> wrote:

>Not sure though. The only way to find out is to propose them and see. Maybe wait a bit until things have cooled down...

And then we are again at the mercy of a single "decider" to judge whether something is controversial or not?

It was pointed several times before that with enough loud minority you can make any change seem controversial.