[WikiEN-l] Request to Wikipedians for BBC Documentary

[David Gerard]

2009/8/18 Kat Walsh <mindspillage at gmail.com>:

> 4 out of 5 Wikipedians agree, consensus = 80%.
> What exactly counts as "consensus" is another industrial-sized can of
> worms. I think we slipped into "rough consensus" long ago, and are now
> drifting into supermajorities as a rough substitute, with occasional
> exceptions. Lots of people wanting something doesn't necessarily make
> them right, though it's often a decent guide to it...


I have had people tell me "you can't do that, we reached consensus
otherwise" and I go look and it's a straw poll that's *literally* two
people voting for, one against. So it's always useful to check what
someone's calling "consensus."


- d.