On 12/17/06, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/17/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
It's become a guideline. Ho hum.
So much for policy changes being discussed widely prior to implimentation...
It was called a guideline for a year before someone called it policy a few months ago. I haven't seen much difference in its treatment.
I would be more concerned if I thought it made any practical difference what sort of template got stuck on top of it; it's not as though it were an easily enforceable bright-line rule to begin with. It is simply necessary to avoid killing each other, sometimes, and so people tend to regard it as a Good Idea and try to hold others to it no matter what designation gets slapped atop it.
(As a side note, there is discussion about its status on the talk page.)
-Kat