On 11/17/05, Tom Cadden <thomcadden(a)yahoo.ie>
wrote:
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.
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.
I don't think, Sam, you grasp the issue.
I don't think, Tom, you grasp my point.
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.