Thread:Talk:Article feedback/Is AFT specifically on ENWP because of temporary technical limitations?/reply (3)

If there is support for its use, then there is an actual consensus to use it. Consensus—as explicitly stated in en:Wikipedia:Consensus, by the way—is not a matter of having a big discussion. If you change a page, and nobody disagrees enough to undo your change, then there is an actual, real, valid consensus for your change, even if nobody ever types "I support that change" on any page. If people support this tool's use, then there is a consensus for this tool's use, even if there had never been any discussion of it (which there was, although apparently you didn't notice it).

A discussion is a method of documenting a consensus, and it is sometimes a method of forming a consensus where none previously existed, but the process of discussion is not an integral component of having a consensus. Voluntary support for the tool's use == consensus for the tool's use. The only point behind having a formal discussion would be to document the existence of a consensus for the few people whose dislike of the tool makes it hard for them to believe that so many other users support it.