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{{Essay|sc=WP:CONALGO|cat=Wikipedia essays about consensus}}
{{Nutshell|While consensus formation on Wikipedia cannot {{em|literally}} be reduced to a mathematical function, the likelihood of success of a proposition in a content dispute is actually fairly simple to predict with a model.}}
[[File:Unnecessarily complicated gears a.gif|thumb|right|200px|The consensus algorithm is much simpler than this diagram.]]
One might think at first that a general model of [[Wikipedia:Consensus|Wikipedia consensus]] formation would look something like:
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