Stevertigo wrote:
--- Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
To exhaustively, regimentedly cite every well-known fact in every article would be ugly, unwieldy, and overbearing. But it's equally obvious that, the bigger and more popular Wikipedia gets, the harder it is to rely on "obvious" or "ought to" rules which depend on people being reasonable.
So are you saying AGF (a subpolicy of CIVIL, (predecessor too, actually)) is out the window too?
Not out the window, no, though perhaps standing uncomfortably close to it. (I said "the harder it is to", not "it's now impossible to".)
I'd love it if we could hang onto WP:AGF, WP:BOLD, WP:IAR, and the rest forever. But we'll be different from every large society the world has ever known if we can manage that.