From: "Charles Matthews"
<charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com>
"Dan Grey" wrote
"Consensus" can only mean everyone
agrees - and when the hell that
does that happen? Next to never.
Consensus may be a slightly fuzzy term, but it doesn't mean that.
In fact
WP's standard way of operating is a rather good illustration of
what it does
mean: a mixture across the community of those who are largely
agreed, some
who disagree but 'agree to disagree' without disaffection, those
who don't
agree but give low priority to the given issue, those who disagree
strongly
but concede that there is a community view and respect it on that
level,
some vocal and unreconciled folk, some who operate 'outside the
law'. You
find out whether you have consensus, if not unanimity, when you try
to build
on it.
Charles
Well said!
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