Charli Li wrote:
Stephen Bain's mail client expels the following stream of bytes on 6/4/2007 7:48 PM:
On 6/5/07, Steve Bennett XXXXXXXXX@XXXXX.XXX wrote:
...to accuse people of "slavishly" applying policy at a place designed for the application of policy is unfair. That's what they're supposed to be doing there.
Wikipedia is governed by policies and principles, not rules and regulations. They're treating a guideline like a statute.
...and obviously a guideline can have an /occasional exception/. A policy should be treated like a statute, if not as one.
That approach only encourages wikilawyering. Given the helter-skelter way in which policies are adopted and defended there are very few which should be applied to the letter.
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