2009/8/18 Charles Matthews <[email protected]>: > Thomas Dalton wrote: >> Well said. That debate was resolved back in the days when we actually >> reached consensus occasionally! There are too many people for that to >> work, these days. However hard you try, you never find a solution that >> everyone will accept. >> > Hmmm, that seems to assume consensus = no yelling, rather than 80% > support or whatever. As if special interest groups can always block > change. (Now that rings a bell, but we need to be careful about the > retrospective history.)
Yeah, look up "consensus" in a dictionary rather than on [[Wikipedia:Consensus]], you will find the word actually means something quite different to what Wikipedians generally use it to mean (which is actually called "supermajority"). _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
