On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 11:39:16 -0400
Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Pieren <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Serge Wroclawski
> > <[email protected]> wrote:

> I said that you can't get consensus from idle accounts.
> 
> > I like David's idea with the specific tag "name:disputed".
> 
> The status of Jerusalem as part of Israel is not disputed except by
> the same sort of people who might say that London is not the capital
> of the UK.
> 
> The fact that some people don't like the situation doesn't change
> that.
> 
> A "disputed" tag will result in many things being marked disputed. I
> can think of a bunch even in the US.

I have to agree here. It also doesn't solve disputes about what is
disputed. In other words it doesn't force parties to agree to disagree.
And rightly so, sometimes (rarely I'll admit) people can be mistaken. :)

Lambert Carsten

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