The Cunctator wrote:
Forgot to add the connection between the above points and the "some articles having different policies" -- it's because appealing to the Foundation is not official policy, but is an unwritten and semi-secret method for getting changes to happen, only those who know about that avenue (or figure it out) get to use it -- creating the effective policy difference.
This is a very contentious and misleading explanation. Appealing to the foundation *is* official policy, when the issue is serious, and we have long published the phone number of the foundation widely so that people who have any issue can call and complain. This is hardly "unwritten" and absolutely not "semi-secret".
And more... appealing to the foundation as a way to get around the editors or NPOV is going to be a failure, because WP:OFFICE does not permit that. WP:OFFICE allows Danny to temporarily deal with things during a time period when we are reveiewing the seriousness and validity of complaints.