[WikiEN-l] Request to Wikipedians for BBC Documentary

[Charles Matthews]

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.)

Charles