On 10 May 2010 23:14, Ken Arromdee <arromdee(a)rahul.net> wrote:
I suggest that this is a piss-poor way to create
Wikipedia policy. There's
a substantial contingent of policy wonks who take any blanket policy statement
as gospel and use it as an excuse to avoid even *trying* to figure out if
some suggested exception to that policy is a good idea on the grounds that
we don't do such things, ever. It's a triumph of rules lawyering over
common sense. Of course, when questioned they will admit that exceptions
are allowed, but their attitude to any proposed exception remains the same.
I realise Wikipedia is a perpetual ever-refreshing Year Zero, but last
time someone put together a series of options I do recall that they
were resoundingly voted down:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_censorship
Perhaps the time is ripe for another try. (I doubt it myself.)
- d.