Larry Sanger

What can a platform do?

Well, I mean, write neutral articles, essentially.

I mean, if your question is how can it organize people to do it, that's another question.

Well, then we're getting into basically the first four theses.

I can sort of go over those quickly.

Yeah, that would be a good idea to pull them up.

Right.

So the first these are just the headlines, of course, but that's that's quite enough for me.

The first is in decision making by consensus.

Here, the idea is that Wikipedians have this unfortunate practice of pretending that after a topic has been discussed enough, when they have arrived at a decision, that that should be dubbed the consensus view.

Right.

when often it's not.

One side is the loser, the other side is the winner.

And if they're just taking the winning side, that doesn't make the winning side the consensus view.

So all I'm saying there is that in the interest of neutrality,

stop calling this decision-making procedure consensus because that's not what it is.

Well, well,

Oh, let's see.

I know there's probably many examples, but I find examples are helpful to make it concrete.

Essentially, whenever Wikipedia has a debate on any topic at all, it goes through a process of sort of discussion.