On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:50:12 +0000, "Thomas Dalton" thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
Um, actually, most people have simply given up the fighting.
That's pretty much how consensus based decision making is meant to work. You keep arguing until one side stops, either because they're convinced by the others arguments, they've reached an acceptable compromise, or they simply don't think it's important enough to worry about.
In this case, however, it was because of absolute obdurate refusal to countenance any form of compromise in any way whatsoever on the part of some people whose religion holds as a fundamental tenet that "all schools are inherently notable".
Numerous excellent ideas were floated, all rejected by the same small group of people. Wikipedia is not a directory, except of some things.
You still get people asserting "all schools are notable". I think they may even believe it. I don't: my first school is so far form notable that it took considerable research even to find out how it spelt its name, and even then I only have a shrewd idea, I can't find a reliable source for it. Another of my schools is over a thousand years old and the only one in the English-speaking world to have educated a Pope. To assert that both are notable is to use such a low threshold of notability as to render the term utterly meaningless.
I can already see the same arguments starting re shopping malls. I hate to think what will be next.
Guy (JzG)