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    possible duplicate of What are "Community Wiki" posts?
    – Jon Seigel
    Commented Jul 5, 2010 at 1:08
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    There are a whole slew of answers in that question that cover this topic. Unfortunately, they were all deleted by Jeff. So I presume he doesn't want this kind of debate going on. And it is a debate, because there's really no official position on it, which is the most frustrating thing.
    – Jon Seigel
    Commented Jul 5, 2010 at 1:11
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    @Jon Seigel This is not a duplicate, but could/should eventually be a subtopic of that topic. An upvoted comment at the bottom of that topic says, please add "When to mark the 'community wiki' checkbox on a new question?". and this is an attempt to answer that.
    – ChrisW
    Commented Jul 5, 2010 at 1:13
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    @Chris: The answers (and debate) are there, but you need 10k to see them.
    – Jon Seigel
    Commented Jul 5, 2010 at 1:17
  • @Jon Seigel - Can you let me see them (or it, if there's a consensus): either edit it in to the single visible answer there, or copy it to here?
    – ChrisW
    Commented Jul 5, 2010 at 1:20
  • @Chris: There is no consensus; that was my point above. And unfortunately, the discussion spans several answers and many many times (at least 15x) the content of what is visible in there to < 10k's. I don't think it would be appropriate to post all that deleted content elsewhere anyway.
    – Jon Seigel
    Commented Jul 5, 2010 at 1:27
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    @Chris: As I mentioned, The Management has skirted this issue repeatedly, which is frustrating, because the community clearly hasn't resolved this by itself.
    – Jon Seigel
    Commented Jul 5, 2010 at 1:28
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    +1 for trying to be responsible about the cw process. Not sure what's driving the negative reaction here.
    – Jaydles
    Commented Jul 5, 2010 at 2:47
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    Why is this question CW?
    – Ether
    Commented Jul 5, 2010 at 3:49
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    @Ether I made this question CW beause in the section titled "How should a question be added to this FAQ?" at the end of The official FAQ says, "FAQ questions should: ... Be marked as community wiki. Any FAQ post not yet community wiki should be made into a community wiki."
    – ChrisW
    Commented Jul 5, 2010 at 7:25