Less fun unavoidable consequence of greater political importance - Solution: democrazy

I enjoyed reading your analysis. Points 1 and 2 are very good. Your alternative (point 3) is not so good. Democracy does not have anything to do with edit wars, education does. That's why "the more intelligent person will concede." On the other end, the tyranny of the majority may obliterate minority POVs which are given the utmost respect in any civilized democracy and community. I absolutely concur with you on the "need to have some sort of system giving some account holders the right to vote (protecting from voters fraud)" and need to fight vandalism (not necessarily to "protect the solution found by voting") wherever it may occur. I concur again when you state that "Wikipedia is trying a mixture of solutions 1 and 2." and what follows, until your last sentence: "Wikipedia would of course have to let go of the NPOV ideology to make that possible." There seems to be a contradiction between more democracy in the making of Wikipedia and "to let go of the NPOV ideology." I'll say that the exact opposite is true, but I'll leave it to you or any other interested editors to further pursue this matter.

Sincerely,

Virgilio A. P. Machado

Here is my analogy: wp:consensus = democracy, wp:npov = republic.

Interesting analogy. Mine would be wp:consensus = tyranny of the majority (please see lower in the page the large section in English), wp:npov = democracy (equality and freedom).