Indeed. That was what I was trying to say. - White Cat On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:07 AM, David Goodman <[email protected]> wrote:
> " does not face serious opposition by the majority " > that's not an appropriate rule for policy, it should be > "not face serious opposition for a substantial minority", > or, more accurately, "when all but a few of the established editors > involved are at least willing to live with it" > > I've seen people give various figures for the size of the necessary > supermajority, but it should be more a matter of tolerance than a > poll. > > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Ray Saintonge <[email protected]> > wrote: > > White Cat wrote: > >> In general when a proposal achieves the state where it does not face > serious > >> opposition by the majority we consider that a "general agreement". In > >> general votes are given a month or so to go on. It depends on how many > votes > >> are casted. > >> The key problem is people are sick and tired of the > >> deletionists-inclusionsist war. It has been going on for about 5 years > >> now. A lot of people are "avoiding the drama" till the dust could > settle. > >> > > Dust has a hard time settling in the midst of a hurricane. > > > > Ec > > > > _______________________________________________ > > WikiEN-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > > > > -- > David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG > > _______________________________________________ > 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
