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On 14 September 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved to Consensus. The result of the discussion was not moved.

Relation to consensus article

There is a separate, short, article on consensus to contain definitions of consensus from computer science, and give a short overview with examples to those not interested in the decision making implications. If that structure is clunky, then the title 'consensus' should be used for all of this material, resulting in a very long article that would have to cover both technical and poltical uses of the term. probably undesirable. A proposal to merge the two articles was discussed in May 2006 (see Archive 1). The result was No merge.

This article influenced how the governance system of Python was decided - wrongly?

I just stumbled upon an interesting reference to this article. In 2018, the creator and "Benevolent Dictator for Life" of Python (computer language), Guido van Rossum, retired. Later that year, the community gathered to vote on a new governance system. In Python Enhancement Proposal 8001, they choice to use the Condorcet method with one of three points of reasoning being "2. It is consensus decision-making", linking to this article. However, the #Condorcet_Consensus section no longer exists on this article, nor any reference to Condorcet!

I just wanted to share this, motivates me to improve this article further, and hopefully others. DougInAMugtalk 12:15, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Bad move

07:39, 16 November 2024 ModernDaySlavery talk contribs m 73,971 bytes 0 ModernDaySlavery moved page Consensus decision-making to Consensus (decision-making): Better title)

This was a bad move. SmokeyJoe (talk) 08:14, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Look up google number of results:

"consensus decision-making"

About 257,000 results

"consensus" "decision-making" -"consensus decision-making"

About 127,000,000 results

ModernDaySlavery (talk) 08:25, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That’s not a good algorithm. SmokeyJoe (talk) 00:36, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]