[WikiEN-l] An expert's perspective - Tim Bray on editing the XML article

[wjhonson at aol.com]

Abd it seems your slant has shifted, or maybe your shift has slanted.
At any rate, perhaps you could restate your proposal, focusing on what 
you think should be advisory and what proscriptive.  I don't anyone is 
*expecting* experts to do this or that, but that is quite different 
 from stating that they *may not* do it, that is that we are forbidding 
it, or demanding it.

If you don't do it this way, you will likely be blocked, it quite 
different from, shouldn't you do it this way, or would you mind doing 
it this way or ....

I think you can see by now that your original proposal, as framed, 
doesn't seem to fly.

Will Johnson