> > >> 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
We make decisions according to our long-standing policy of making decisions by consensus and have successfully for many years. You saying that our experience is bogus does not make it so. Please take a look at Wikipedia:Consensus Fred _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
