HichamVanborm

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Hi! Thanks for participating in the discussion at Talk:Danah Boyd. I read your user page and would like to welcome you to Wikipedia as an editor. Its funny how many different reasons cause people to finally start editing - I started editing almost a year ago because I thought it'd be nice to clean up writing and set the facts straight when I saw something that looked silly. I appreciate where you were coming from regarding the capitalization of Danah Boyd and wanting to be as accurate as possible. I of course also want to be as accurate as possible but I am particular about English being used consistently. "Danah Boyd" still refers to the same person; "danah boyd" is just styled differently. Anyway, I don't mean to bring that discussion here, I just thought I would say hello and offer some help to finding the answers to a few of your questions.

Regarding your Jimmy Wales question, I looked for a clear answer but couldn't find one. Wikipedia is clearly set up with a hierarchy to maintain order, and currently Jimmy Wales is officially a member of the Arbitration Committee, as a "permanent member." I suppose there is always going to be need for someone to give absolute guidance in cases where disagreement may go all the way to the top. It might also be because Wikipedia is still young and the community is still working out some of the kinks (particularly policy on living persons' biographies, deletion reviews, etc.). His article, Jimmy Wales, and his user page, User:Jimbo Wales might also give you some more information ("founder and president of the Wikimedia Foundation, the group that governs Wikipedia." -- in other words, he holds responsibility for it in a legal sense).

Regarding your question about consensus, Wikipedia:Consensus might also help you out. As far as I have seen it, if it is more than a trivial matter, a large number of opinions is needed to decided a matter based on "consensus" (not just 3 to 1). With as large as the community is becoming, this isn't really difficult, and that leads to the problem of "consensus" becoming a smaller and smaller percentage of the overall community. Obviously things won't be perfect, but (I could be wrong) no policy or guidelines besides the five pillars of Wikipedia is ever permanent.

Anyway, I hope some of that helps, and again, welcome! -- Renesis13 03:50, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi Hicham, if you are interested in Salif Keita (I saw you left a comment on the discussions page of the article), could you please drop me a line? Thanks! Chris 14:25, 22 November 2006 (UTC)