On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:50:12 +0000, "Thomas Dalton"
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Um, actually,
most people have simply given up the fighting.
That's pretty much how consensus based decision making is meant to
work. You keep arguing until one side stops, either because they're
convinced by the others arguments, they've reached an acceptable
compromise, or they simply don't think it's important enough to worry
about.
In this case, however, it was because of absolute obdurate refusal to
countenance any form of compromise in any way whatsoever on the part
of some people whose religion holds as a fundamental tenet that "all
schools are inherently notable".
Numerous excellent ideas were floated, all rejected by the same small
group of people. Wikipedia is not a directory, except of some things.
You still get people asserting "all schools are notable". I think
they may even believe it. I don't: my first school is so far form
notable that it took considerable research even to find out how it
spelt its name, and even then I only have a shrewd idea, I can't find
a reliable source for it. Another of my schools is over a thousand
years old and the only one in the English-speaking world to have
educated a Pope. To assert that both are notable is to use such a low
threshold of notability as to render the term utterly meaningless.
I can already see the same arguments starting re shopping malls. I
hate to think what will be next.
Guy (JzG)
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