On 9/17/07, Wily D wilydoppelganger@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/17/07, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/17/07, Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
Is that the cynical "people like to ignore bugs by calling them features" type of feature, or are you actually suggesting it's a real feature?
I suspect that David believes, as do I, that doing the right thing on Wikipedia cannot be wholly written into a set of iron-clad rules capable of being interpreted by a robot. Furthermore, given the dynamic environment, things constantly change. Therefore, human decision-making and sensible conflict resolution must be used.
-Matt
Roughly, yes. We're supposed to be making the right decision regardless of the rules.
The thing is, there rarely is a "right" decision. A while ago I stated about how it doesn't matter if red means go and green me stop as long as we are consistent about which is which. It was pointed out at the time that turn signals wouldn't work if green and red were mixed up, but that's just inconsistency between the people who drive and the people who made the traffic lights.
I'd say inconsistency in "the rules" is the biggest primary problem currently facing Wikipedia.