On 9/11/06, Akash Mehta draicone@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think its appropriate to rewrite policy to suit your intentions. It defeats the purpose of having a policy in the first place. I respect the user as an editor, but I totally disagree with the changes simply because they aren't approved on policy - being on MoS without any prior community approval isn't policy.
I have a unique solution. Add Brainstorming subpages to each official policy and guideline, keep {{brainstorming}} on the top of those subpages, on the original, make editors aware of the subpage. Let significant changes and discussion move forward on the brainstorming pages, providing a sandbox. Protect the main policy pages from editing and only move changes over from brainstorming when they reach consensus. This should satisfy both immediatism and eventualism camps and discourage users who make an individual change to a policy to run around like its accepted.
-jtp Electrawn