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[edit]Should we say something about presumed consensus when defining "consensus" in Wikipedia:Levels of consensus#Defining some terms? - Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 15:46, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you for your improvements, and for the suggestion. Makes sense, I've added it in the assumptions section, I don't think it needs to be defined as a term in the context of this essay. Scribolt (talk) 08:28, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
- Regarding your add -
- The concept of presumed consensus is policy (Wikipedia:EDITCON). So maybe "This can be true." should be "This is true."
- I'm not sure what is being said by "This can also be said to apply to content which has gone through a peer review process, e.g. FAC."
- Butwhatdoiknow (talk) 17:01, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
- Tweaked and updated. You're right that it is technically true, but in terms of the purpose of the essay, the level of consensus is so weak, it's effectively no consensus. I wanted to mention peer reviewed stuff, because by it's nature the content of the silent edit gets a bit more approval because we know someone has actually read it as opposed to missing it in their watchlist. And this also interacts a bit with BRD (which I know is not policy but is reflective of how a lot of editing actually goes) in that you generally need a good reason to remove or change long standing content. If you don't want to discuss, the original consensus on what the content should be stands. I don't want to get too into the weeds here, as this wasn't really the direction I wanted to go in for the essay (which was identifying and contrasting levels of consensus and how they arise), but feel free to further tweak. Scribolt (talk) 08:47, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
- Regarding your add -