> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Marc Riddell <[email protected]> > wrote: >>> People agree and support the decision. >>> >> Fred, who are these people that are making these decisions and declaring >> that there in Community consensus, knowing that this "consensus" cannot be >> factually validated?
on 2/1/11 10:34 PM, George Herbert at [email protected] wrote: > > It is in the nature of online collaborative communities that this > general question has no exact answer. > > This is fundamentally unsatisfying to a number of people, including > those who prefer various not-yet-universally-supported changes; > scientists, observers, critics, and journalists from outside the > community trying to understand or quantify it; many others. > > That's the way it works, though. > > I appreciate your point, which is that this way of doing things is > often infuriating, insane, or impossible to actually get anything done > in. The reality is that we're there. That's how Wikipedia works (for > whatever definition of "work" you care to apply to the state of the > project here, which you and others feel are unsatisfactory). George, it may be "how it works", but it also misleading - or worse. To state that any decision made in this manner is a "consensus of the Wikipedia Community" is fundamentally dishonest. Marc _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
