On 31/08/06, Maury Markowitz
<maury_markowitz(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
But David, I was wondering if you would consider
starting an article on
"procedural obsessives"? It seems that simply pointing people towards such
an article would be a much more neutral way to deal with it than posting a
personal message on their talk page. THAT can easily be misinterpreted as
someone trying to protect "their" article.
*splutter* To say this is a contentious issue is an understatement.
See [[:en:Wikipedia:Ignore All Rules]] is one. Now, I'd like you to
read the talk page and the history of that page. A lot of people HATED
it passionately and did their best to kill it or at least neuter it.
But Jimbo has stated it's obviously policy, because product beats
process.
See [[:en:Wikipedia:Process is Important]]. Which, of course, it is.
See [[m:Instruction creep]]. And its history ... in which you can see
how it was instruction-crept.
See [[m:Don't be a dick]] and the attempts to kill that, most notably
by claiming it must be deleted because the translation would be
unacceptably rude in Japanese.
These seem like some of the most important policies ... or am I just
showing my age? As for the last one, the Japanese will just have to
read it in English. ;-)
Ec