On 10/07/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
Sorry, but that's not how I remember it. The lengthy debate over [[WP:SCHOOLS]] was torpedoed mainly by a small number of people who flatly refused to consider anything other than "all schools are inherently notable". No merge was acceptable, no deletion was acceptable, however atrocious the article, they stated as an article of faith that every school merited an article.
I don't recall a *single* deletionist raising any argument that was as dogmatic as those raised by the few militant inclusionists.
Guy (JzG)
Tough. In such an situation there wasn't any consensus reached. Perhaps that situation illustrates why the idea of "consensus" isn't sensible - but for now it's the decision-making principle that people allege Wikipedia always works under (although as I've said before, I say most of the time people on Wikipedia do what they like, ignoring dissent and even claiming consensus where there is none).
Zoney