Thomas Dalton wrote:
Three people saying they like an article *and no-one saying they don't* is consensus.
It's consensus among those three people, maybe, but it's hardly an established consensus among Wikipedians.
No, you haven't understood my point. It's a consensus among those three people AND everyone that read the page and decided there was no need to comment, which is probably much larger than just 3 people.
That sounds like consensus by attrition. The notion that silence is consent is not a very sound principle on which to build consensus. Some people pick their battles, and wait until they're really pissed off before jumping in.
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