Wikipedia talk:Replies to common objections/Old talk

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"If we assume that the world is full of reasonable people and that collectively they can arrive eventually at a reasonable

     conclusion, despite the worst efforts of a very few wreckers. It's called optimism." 

I propose we consider changing to the following or a compressed equivalent or perhaps a subtopic to or draft research article where we can report our draft results along with anecdotal or quantitative data that we are correct in various specific. Obviously, the Wikipedia is good monolithic chunk of evidence. Its existence is self evident and getting ever more so.

We postulate that the world is full of reasonable people. It is our Wikipedians community's prevailing theory that collectively most people can arrive eventually at reasonable conclusions. The predicted result is predominant so far despite the worst efforts of a very few wreckers. Our optimism is apparently a sound theory based upon our empirical evidence to date. As proven optimists we are confident that further experience will only increase our confidence. Particularly since our many experts are also researching and incrementically improving our methods at pace slow enough to assure our communities continued stability despite our dynamice growth.

I could not insert text into the article in the edit box. Is there a page size limit that cannot be exceeded thus required refactoring here to put some content on additional pages? user:mirwin

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