[WikiEN-l] Consensus is dying...

Sun Sep 3 09:46:31 UTC 2006

>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.
>>
>> http://icannwiki.org/Consensus_Polling
>>
>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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