Not commenting on the correct answer to inclusionist v deletionist but... Generally the best way to get lasting agreement on major policy changes on wikipedia is/used to be a policy RFC. You then advertise that RFC and get folks involved that way. That gives you the "more then 10" that white cat was referring to.
On 1/13/09, Martijn Hoekstra <[email protected]> wrote: > And since there is no effective means of community wide discussion, > and after that, there is no means to determine that consensus has been > reached, with a community so ill defined, we have a problem with > consensus. > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:38 PM, White Cat > <[email protected]> wrote: >> By "community consensus" I mean the result of "community wide discussion". >> Community consensus does not mean a discrete discussions by an elite >> number >> of editors in some hidden sub project page no one cares about. >> - White Cat >> >> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Martijn Hoekstra >> <[email protected] >>> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Marc Riddell >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> on 1/13/09 2:33 AM, White Cat at [email protected] >>> >> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> In other words there is a lack of consensus. Meaning no mass action of >>> any >>> >> kind should be taken until a consensus is secured. >>> >> >>> > On any given subject within the Project, how does someone go about >>> achieving >>> > consensus? And how and when do you determine that a consensus has been >>> > reached? >>> > >>> > Marc Riddell >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > WikiEN-l mailing list >>> > [email protected] >>> > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >>> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >>> > >>> >>> I have been trying to write an essay on that for ages on that: see >>> [[WP:TINCON]] >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> WikiEN-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l >> > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
