[WikiEN-l] Another notability casualty

[David Goodman]

I thing compromise IS the solution.

I said that the sort of compromise by deciding the individual cases half one
way half the other on a more or less random basis is the worst way to do a
compromise.

I didn't go into the best way to form a compromise. The way that works in
the outside world is that someone in authority forces the people to
compromise under threat of deciding the issue themselves.  Except for
behavior, we have no such authority and I wouldn't want us to have one as a
general matter. Perhaps we might resort to binding arbitration with an ad
hoc arbitrator in some cases. More generally, we did a better method of
forming policy. Polls are susceptible to swamping by one side unless there
is a serious attempt in more general participation than say , the
current BLP poll. Discussions in the usual way can be deadlocked by a single
person persisting in an objection, as is happening right now at WT:FICTION.

The only practical hope is for us to attract new people who will come to the
discussions without long-set preconceptions about them.

David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG


On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Charles Matthews <
charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Bod Notbod wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:38 PM, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Since we have no really universally agreed  vision of what the
> encyclopedia
> >> should be, almost any decision is the result of compromise [...]
> Personally, I
> >> think that's the worst way to find a solution.
> >>
> >
> > I hope I'm snipping in such a way as to not change your argument
> > there, I have no doubt I'll be told if not.
> >
> > What is the *best* way to find a solution then?
> >
> Solutions take the form of "complicate the flowchart". Add preliminary
> steps before any deletion, review steps after deletions, and so on. The
> problem is ... many people active on the site don't have too clear a
> view of what the current "flowchart" is - or in other words current best
> practice isn't always followed, and therefore tweaking it doesn't have
> as much traction as it should. But I do recommend trying to get the
> overview of what the processes look like, certainly over reading the
> fine print in [[WP:N]].
>
> Charles
>
>
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