Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Consensus decision-making

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. John254 16:02, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Consensus decision-making

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controversial neologism, a google search seems to indicate that it passes WP:N but they all quote or paste from the WP article. decision making is part and parcel of Consensus even though the Suffrage system is not applied. If this is not so then there should be an article on a form of Consensus lacking any purpose in decision making, not Consensus decision-making. too bad there are already a few such as voting and polls. ephix 22:14, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Delete or just maybe Merge with Consensus democracy. ephix
  • Keep important topic, lots of books written on the subject. See reference list in article. Democracy isn't a condition for using consensus decision-making. --Alvestrand 05:50, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep. Well written and referenced article on an important topic. -- Alan Liefting talk 09:10, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep Well-written, thoroughly sourced article, which is particularly relevant here. Wikipedia is, after all, a consensus-driven community, and the article is especially relevant to AfD discussions. My Google search turned up over 2 million hits, many to universities, government agencies, NATO, NGOs and other non-profit organizations. —Travistalk 13:04, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep; important topic with lots of refs, not the same as consensus democracy. Additionally the nomination for deletion is incoherent; discussions about content and overlap should be on the talk page, not an AFD nomination. -- phoebe/(talk) 15:28, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Note: This AfD was not nominated in accordance with WP:DEL (please refer to the RfC for further info). This is a mature and well-sourced article. It appears to have been listed for deletion due to a misunderstanding of Wikipedia policies and customs on the part of a new user (I am assuming good faith on this). I have removed the tag from the article. I don't have the authority to close this page, so request that an administrator do that. Sunray 19:48, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Update: It appears that I misread the policy. It is with respect to proposed deletions that one can remove the tag, not Article deletions. So we have a serious gap in policy here. Apparently anyone can slap an Afd on any article (without having followed WP:DEL) and we must go through this debate here. If you wish to comment on the policy issues, please do so on the RfC on the article's talk page. Meanwhile, I have restored the tag. Sunray 20:17, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
FYI WP:SK, and WP:SNOW -- Whpq 22:11, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
  • Speedy Keep - Well written and referenced -- Whpq 22:11, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
As it is currently worded, WP:SK doesn't seem to apply, but I think your idea is worth pursuing. Perhaps an amendment to the WP:SK and WP:DEL policies would plug this loophole. Sunray 17:39, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.