On 9/1/06, Angela wrote:
On 9/1/06, Cheney Shill wrote:
User voting, whether by poll or by discussion until one side stops discussing (aka, into the ground), is original research. So, yes, consensus applied this way should die.
Perhaps consensus polling should be tried instead.
Perhaps we should stop calling it consensus in those places where there is no desire to find a solution everyone can agree upon.
The main problem is that it is still original research. That's fine for a group of experts deciding whether to call Pluto a planet, call it something else, or to simply describe it without any name. In terms of the encyclopedia, it leaves the decision to the editors, not the sources.
I do like the Yes/Not Yet concept. I wish that a definitive yes/not yet threshold would be defined in determining whether something is sourced (and therefore can be included in the article) or not yet adequately sourced (and therefore left out).
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