Editing Consumerium:We

Who '''We''' are at '''Consumerium''' is always changing.  People drop in, drop out, get invited in, and sometimes even get [[driven off by trolls]] (in very nasty cases where those who perform [[sysop vandalism]] or other sins elsewhere, then show up here!).

Any statement about '''who we are''' thus must be examined by every participant, so they can qualify, edit, object, or change it.  See [[subject-object problem]] and [[God's Eye View]] for a more general presentation of the issues involved.  [[Consumerium]] should be as careful with use of the word '''We''' as it is with mention of [[Consumerium:Itself]].  Please link any use of the word "we" meaning "we who edit or are assumed to read or use [[Consumerium Services]]" to this page with the following link:

To minimize any [[unequal power relationship]]s, please include this text:

:<nowiki>[[Consumerium:We|We]]</nowiki>

to create a link to [[Consumerium:We]] (this page which explains the significance of such a mention) directly in the text or talk page of any article that you think is saying something about '''who we are'''.  This makes it easier to track these statements.  

It also makes it easy to see [http://develop.consumerium.org/wiki/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Whatlinkshere&target=Consudev:We what pages link here] and therefore, what's being said in "our" name.  So that any one of us can change or modify or qualify it, if they, i.e. '''we''', disagree.

It's another way to make sure only [[Consumerium:consensus]] is expressed here, and it frees us to [[Consumerium:be bold|be bold]] in making claims.

A similar protocol applies to all mention of [[Consumerium:Itself]] and any [[Consumerium:Policy]].