[WikiEN-l] Request to Wikipedians for BBC Documentary

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/8/18 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>:
> 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").