On 6/21/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
It's a pity that our first step was to compromise it so immensely by all that "free content" rules, then.
Our aim is to produce a free encyclopedia so no conflict with underlying aims.
Geni, there are no hard and fast lines.
Or you don't want there to be.
We shouldn't avoid making policies because we can't define the edge cases
Generally it is best to write policies with the minimum possible number of edge cases.
- as with your worries
about people creatively misinterpreting the living-people rules to somehow prevent us writing about anything organic - and we shouldn't avoid making them because they won't make the project divinely perfect at a stroke.
No silly attempt to misread or twist the rules to the detriment of the project will last against common sense.
8000 years of human history suggests otherwise. Power will be abused that is a given. Why do you think that traditional policy so limited what admins could so.
Common sense will be the rallying cry of those abusing the powers remember:
[[Wikipedia:There is no common sense]]