Talk:Consensus decision-making
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.
definition of majority
A "simple" majority is not 50% plus one. A majority is "more than half". There is a big difference. Let's say you have a committee of five people. Without doing the math, your common sense tells you that a majority of 5 is 3. Yet if you use the 50% plus 1 scenario a majority of 5 is 4 (half of 5 is two and a half, add 1, becomes three and a half. Since you cannot have half a person, the answer becomes 4). "More than half" solves the problem and is the correct definition according to most accepted parliamentary authorities, such as Robert's Rules.
- Agreed. Change at will. EofT
Removed consensus as being necessarily "democratic". For example, the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese communist Party appears to make decisions via consensus, but this doesn't make the decision making democratic.