Board Thread:Policies/@comment-10473115-20160326125713/@comment-10473115-20160506011225

I updated Consensus. Comments?

Artful Dodger wrote: I think the consensus model would work as long as we consider a hierarchy. Marvel Handbooks beat everything, referenced sources come next, admin/moderator opinions come after that, and community consensus comes last. We can make that clear on the Consensus page. I think that we should have a different policy about what's accepted as a canonical source and what are preferences amongst those sources, possibly at Marvel Database:Canon. But you brought out a great question, how local consensus relates to policies or community consensus.

I use the term community consensus as a consensus amongst all editors on the Database to the contrast to local consensus between few editors seeking a solution to a content dispute. So all policies should be made on community consensus but we can't expect to everybody to follow every content dispute and therefore those are made with local consensus. That brings us to the question: How we ensure that local consensus follows our policies? Let's take an example, if ten editors say that Pietro is not an Avenger because he don't look like it and one editor says that he's an Avenger because it's written in the handbook, local consensus is clear. However, it's against our policy to follow that consensus and not list him as an Avenger. That's a reason why we shouldn't go with a straight vote but discussion is better to be closed by someone who can also weight arguments and disregard those against a policy or wider consensus.

I would like to hear your opinions about that and it's also still unclear to me who should be able to determine community consensus. We have one proposal of voting threshold and one for admin-only decision. Please give more opinions so we could write something to the policy page. You can do it yourself if you like.

To clarify my intentions for this discussion, goal is to have a policy page which mirrors current community consensus as good as possible. When it's ready enough it would be proposed as our policy on a different highlighted thread.