[WikiEN-l] need to work out clear policies on MANDATORY and OPTIONAL rules on WP

[Ray Saintonge]

Sam Korn wrote:

>On 11/17/05, Tom Cadden <thomcadden at yahoo.ie> wrote:
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>>I have no difficulty whatsoever in knowing what mandatory means. It means 'the criteria for forming a judgment must be as defined'. You seem not to understand that votes on mandatory issues on individual pages cannot overturn mandatory rules. They set one set of criteria and one set of criteria only for decision taking.
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>> A review of pages shows that some users on some pages are creating their own personalised criteria in place of the mandatory criteria and making decisions that completely conflict with the mandatory requirements of the MoS, based on their own made up criteria. That is not allowed under MoS rules.
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>> I don't think, Sam, you grasp the issue.
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>I don't think, Tom, you grasp my point.
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>The MoS is the list of rules.  The rules say that the most common name
>must be used.  The enterpretation is situation-specific.  In your
>opinion, Ivory Coast is more common.  In others', it is Côte d'Ivoire.
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I don't think that the word "must" appears in the rule.

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