On 11/21/05, charles matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
Good point. Guidelines exist; they can't all be junked. On the other hand they exist in tension. Unfortunately, policy, semi-policy, guideline, whatever, is used in the same fashion as stone clubs in the Neolithic: anything to hand to win an argument. (Yes, yes, uncalled-for slur on Fred Flintstone, I know.)
If something really valuable gets deleted, just undelete it. If this happens often enough, deletion policy will be subject to refinement.