[WikiEN-l] So, has the need for consensus in wikipedia been eliminated?

Chris Howie cdhowie at gmail.com
Thu Jan 10 16:15:54 UTC 2008


On Jan 10, 2008 10:58 AM, Majorly <axel9891 at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Everyone getting it is clearly a bad idea - many users have already been
> rejected, and they would have had to have been blocked if they'd got it
> automatically.


All the better to weed out the edit warriors.


> Blocking is not the way to solve it. And your idea doesn't
> remove the idea of a "clique"


Yes it does, there would not be another tier of user between editors and
Jimbo.


> your idea is "innocent until proven guilty"
> approach - but as we've seen, it simply wouldn't work.
>

{{fact}}

How is that approach any different from how we let anons edit most of our
pages?

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