In Wikidata, we should embrace Ranking much more.  I have seen this powerful 
feature, just simply forgotten, even by admins, actually especially by admins 
and moderators.

Help:Ranking - Wikidata<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Ranking>

Instead of arguing, disagreeing on subclassifying, property statements, and 
trying to represent the world into a single view - typically our own.  Ranking 
was made available so that we can represent MANY views and capture the subtle 
differences between our lives, experiences, and personal knowledge.  We all 
(especially admins!) need to remember this powerful feature, instead of quickly 
just assuming and reverting useful statements... only to limit our knowledge to 
a single view.  Instead of reverting, ASK, consider someone's personal 
knowledge, then simply apply "preferred rank" to bring some consensus, but let 
alternative views live at "normal rank". 🙂

Ranking Matters.

- Thad

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