[WikiEN-l] Request to Wikipedians for BBC Documentary

[Ray Saintonge]

David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/8/18 Kat Walsh :
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>> 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...
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> 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."
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2 to 1 doesn't even meet the 80% criterion.

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