Consensus vs supermajority A consensus is not 66 nor 80 nor 100 You re confusing a supermajority with consensus Consensus is a decision or resolution that all parties in a dispute or discussion can accept even if they disagree Please take care to note the difference In day to day matters such as VfD and RFA a supermajority serves as a practical substitute for real consensus However such operational conveniences do not change the proper definition of consensus Jimbo s decision forced a consensus that was probably already developing but had clearly not been reached at the time he announced his opinion Regardless of its history it s now a fact of Wikipedia life that virtually everyone accepts and I don t intend to argue it further