[Wikipedia-l] Voting versus consensus

[tarquin]

Erik Moeller wrote:

>What was missing was a good overview of the pros and cons of each logo.  
>This has technical reasons -- with the pages already very big and over 130  
>submissions, discussions had to be relegated to relatively hidden talk  
>pages. I'm not very happy with this, because I believe in the principle of  
>*informed* democracy.
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Yes, I agree entirely with this.
I think the winner got so many votes because it incorporates words in 
many languages, which probably appealed to people because it looks 
"international".
But this excessive text is *exactly* what makes it a terrible logo - it 
doesn't scale down and the filesize is TOO BIG for the web.

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