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I can only hope that the WG members who have gone into this one are more willing to actually communicate. With 1 big exception and 1 minor exception, all the WGs were terrible at communicating during the consultation stages despite requests and outright pleading by participants: both at feedback about the recommendations but also requests for clarification. That there were no substantive changes between the two bouts of consultation suggests that the couple of hundred edits made to ask or indicate (most frequently) concerns did not receive great deals of consideration. As such I'm not feeling confident that the ultimate set of suggestions will bear in mind both sets of feedback. Risker's presence is one of the few things that gives me hope in it. Nosebagbear (talk) 18:41, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your comments, Nosebagbear. I can't really speak for all of the working groups, but I know that many of them had a large amount of feedback from a lot of different streams coming in, and at minimum they were read and considered, even if there weren't written responses to everything. This has been a challenging process - some groups did a lot of information gathering and research, some of which was suitable for publishing; the Roles & Responsibilities group on which I sat read dozens of scholarly papers and treatises to try to find concepts that could be workable within our movement. A lot of people put a lot of time and effort into their group's work, and it can be difficult to step back and dispassionately prioritize recommendations. That work continues. Risker (talk) 05:20, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]