On 30/09/2009, FT2 <ft2.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > Policies and rules don't work that way, exactly. They're a bit "zen", they > point to the moon, but they aren't the moon themselves. if you want a formal > policy that everyone /must/ follow, then 5 pillars, or WP:CLUE are in some > ways more speaking to the spirit of things, rather than the detail of it. > > No written page can capture the full precise black and white version, > because there isn't such a thing. We fix it to get fairly close on big > stuff, and hope people figure out the small stuff on their own, or by seeing > how others react to their trying things out. > > If you try and run Wikipedia literally "by the policies" (including IAR) but > not the spirit, you'll get close but there will regularly be areas you'll > miss the point, the "what a clueful person might intuit" (which will surely > be divergent with others!)
In my experience the problems are usually more to do with people not following policies. It's precisely the people that *think* they understand the wikipedia that usually become deletionists or inclusionists. > FT2 -- -Ian Woollard _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
