On 4/12/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
To continue to be a complete pain in the arse, I would have to ask what you mean by "consensus on this issue". Who was asked? If you asked a group of Australians whether Wikipedia should be biased towards Australia or be unbiased, I'm not sure we would come up with "consensus" either.
While I see your point, I'm not sure if 'consensus' as you specify it here is possible to achieve or even possible to know. I'm also not sure if it has much practical purpose.
In effect, you're wondering if consensus should be defined as the consensus of humanity as a whole, rather than interested Wikipedians. (am I right?)
Unfortunately, you don't have humanity as a whole chiming in. We work with what we have, which is Wikipedians plus our insights into the needs of our users, such as they are.
-Matt