On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
People agree and support the decision.
Fred, who are these people that are making these decisions and declaring that there in Community consensus, knowing that this "consensus" cannot be factually validated?
It is in the nature of online collaborative communities that this general question has no exact answer.
This is fundamentally unsatisfying to a number of people, including those who prefer various not-yet-universally-supported changes; scientists, observers, critics, and journalists from outside the community trying to understand or quantify it; many others.
That's the way it works, though.
I appreciate your point, which is that this way of doing things is often infuriating, insane, or impossible to actually get anything done in. The reality is that we're there. That's how Wikipedia works (for whatever definition of "work" you care to apply to the state of the project here, which you and others feel are unsatisfactory).