10. An article of manufacture comprising: (A) a content management system comprising: a content modification mechanism that detects a change to a shared document in a repository, and in response thereto, inserts applicability metadata in the shared document; and a voting mechanism that receives votes from parent documents of the shared document to accept or reject the change made to the shared document, wherein if the votes received from the parent documents to accept the change meet a defined voting threshold, the content modification mechanism removes the applicability metadata in the shared document; and (B) computer-readable media bearing the content management system.
10. An article of manufacture comprising: (A) a content management system comprising: a content modification mechanism that detects a change to a shared document in a repository, and in response thereto, inserts applicability metadata in the shared document; and a voting mechanism that receives votes from parent documents of the shared document to accept or reject the change made to the shared document, wherein if the votes received from the parent documents to accept the change meet a defined voting threshold, the content modification mechanism removes the applicability metadata in the shared document; and (B) computer-readable media bearing the content management system. 13. The article of manufacture of claim 10 wherein the parent documents have an associated applicability keyword list that allows the voting mechanism to automatically vote to accept the change made to the shared document by a selected parent document when the applicability keyword list for the selected parent document includes a keyword corresponding to the applicability metadata in the shared document, and to automatically vote to reject the change made to the shared document when the applicability keyword list for the selected parent document does not include a keyword corresponding to the applicability metadata in the shared document.