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WRONG_CONSENSUS

                                                     June  1, 2006
                                             Rev: January 28, 2007

One of the troubles with wikipedia's
reliance on consensus is that this is
not the same thing as truth.

If you know that something is wrong, you
are not allowed to correct it if you are         People reading articles
the first person to realize that it's            where they themselves
wrong.                                           are the topic find this
                                                 one particularly hard
If there is no other prior publication           to swallow.
of the point, then it falls under the
heading of "original research", and it               They're the ultimate
is outside the domain of the wikipedia.              primary source, but
                                                     there's no mechanism
                                                     for them to send info
                                                     to wikipeida about
                                                     themselves, because
                                                     of a presumed lack of
                                                     neutrality.
        BEAT_DROP

        It's the consensus
        opinion, therefore
        that is what should
        be written about.              Welcome to the
                                       "Family Feud" world.
            It doesn't have
            to be right.


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