[Talk-GB] No more voting on mechanical edits

[SomeoneElse]

On 18/12/2014 10:24, Dan S wrote:
> Hi Matthijs,
>
> The DWG email used the word "consensus" inappropriately, since
> consensus means everyone agreeing, and we didn't. However, consensus
> is essentially impossible in big wiki communities like ours, so let's
> assume there's a relative meaning of the term ;)

Maybe I've been using the word inappropriately all these years but I've 
always thought that "concensus" meant "general agreement" - the idea 
that "we, as a community, generally think this" not that "absolutely 
everyone agrees with every part of something 100%".  It doesn't mean "10 
people who could be bothered ticked a box on a wiki page".  It means, 
"we, as a community, have thought about it, discussed it, and although 
some people may disagree, the general feeling of the community is X".

My DWG mail to Matthijs (part of which was selectively quoted to this 
list) contained a number of suggestions about how to best to proceed.  
These included better explaining why a change now rather than later was 
beneficial, and why some of the other suggestions raised last time 
wouldn't work for the problem as he sees it. It also covered the issue 
of how to ensure that new mappers use the "correct" tags.  Thinking 
about these other issues is actually far more important than whether or 
not to do X mechanical edit.

Best Regards,

Andy Townsend