on 5/16/07 8:43 PM, doc at doc.wikipedia(a)ntlworld.com wrote:
This is the problem with so many of our stylistic
policies -
few people care until the small clique that develops them starts
enforcing conformity across swathes of articles. When people who are
actually working on the article complain - they are told it is policy -
and directed to the policy page - if they want to change it they must go
there. When they do, the clique quickly rejects them. The same pattern
is happening with infobox mania and with bloated Wikiprojects where a
small group, often of non-writers, decides that all articles in 'their'
field will conform to their rules.
I am honestly not trying to reopen an old subject, but this is EXACTLY what
happened in the area of WP Categories. It is exactly what I encountered.
Marc Riddell