Examine Tony's statement earlier in the thread: "I agree 100% If I can't convince anybody that something belongs in Wikipedia, it doesn't belong in Wikipedia." He doesnt say "convince everybody" Read literally, if any unbiased editor will support something, it should stay in, just as we don't ban a user if any one administrator is willing to unblock him.
More practically, it would require the consent of the community to remove material. The only other way of reading it, is that it means, convince everybody--but there wont be any content at all left on controversial subjects if we do that. So I suppose he means consensus. I agree with him that the removal of good-faith material should require prior consensus.
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/10/08, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
I agree 100% If I can't convince anybody that something belongs in Wikipedia, it doesn't belong in Wikipedia.
Depends on your definition of "anybody" in this context. Hopefully you can recognize the (subtle) ambiguity here, but I can explain it if necessary (and if I can find the words to concisely do so, which might not be so easy).
—C.W.
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