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The routine day-to-day work is also carried on by consensus, but these are strictly local and specific consensuses that cannot in any sense override the general and global consensus that formed the policies and guidelines. '''Content disputes''' (relating to the 2nd pillar) are decided by consensus on the talk page of the article. Citations to policies and guidelines, which the participants are powerless to change, are the order of the day in such talks. Content disputes are where the principle of consensus is preserved in its purest form. But in other disputes the community has seen fit to, by consensus, add democratic and meritocratic elements to their administration in order to make it more effective and efficient. | The routine day-to-day work is also carried on by consensus, but these are strictly local and specific consensuses that cannot in any sense override the general and global consensus that formed the policies and guidelines. '''Content disputes''' (relating to the 2nd pillar) are decided by consensus on the talk page of the article. Citations to policies and guidelines, which the participants are powerless to change, are the order of the day in such talks. Content disputes are where the principle of consensus is preserved in its purest form. But in other disputes the community has seen fit to, by consensus, add democratic and meritocratic elements to their administration in order to make it more effective and efficient. | ||
==Democracy== | ==Democracy== | ||
Wikipedia contains ''democratic'' elements. | Wikipedia contains ''democratic'' elements. | ||
It holds elections for an '''Arbitration Committee'''. The Arbitration Committee consists of 15 members, half of whom are elected every other year (though before 2010, a third of them were elected every third year). The Arbitration Committee '''has no power over content disputes'''. Rather, its powers extend to banning problematic users from editing the site as a whole ('''site ban'''), from editing articles on specified topics ('''topic ban'''), or from interacting with users they have problems with ('''interaction ban'''). The | It holds elections for an '''Arbitration Committee'''. The Arbitration Committee consists of 15 members, half of whom are elected every other year (though before 2010, a third of them were elected every third year). The Arbitration Committee '''has no power over content disputes'''. Rather, its powers extend to banning problematic users from editing the site as a whole ('''site ban'''), from editing articles on specified topics ('''topic ban'''), or from interacting with users they have problems with ('''interaction ban'''). The |