- This WikiIndex: Consensus is a draft policy or guideline. Its content may be used, and indeed relied upon on this WikiIndex wiki site. However, it may also be considered open for further discussion on what should or could or even must be done. All WikiIndex users are encouraged to be bold in editing to evolve and improve this draft, and also to contribute to any discussion on its talk page.
If it appears consensus for adoption of this policy has been reached, this message may be removed. If it appears that there is overwhelming consensus to reject this policy, then the page can be annotated as rejected.
Consensus is a fundamental tenet of virtually all wiki sites which rely on editing from a community of people. Consensus is arrived at here on WikiIndex through discussion, in the first instance on the talk page of individual articles. There is a hierarchy on this site for technical and legal reasons, but decision-making is strongly encouraged from all WikiIndex users via their own community input. In practice, this may sometimes be difficult to achieve, especially because our WikiIndex community is small, or many members are inactive.
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