On 12/17/05, David Gerard <fun(a)thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
Heh. I have started in a slow way tightening up some
of our ridiculously
bloated, opaquely-written and special-case-riddled guideline and policy
pages; I look forward to the time to really go the hack on the MoS. I
think it could be one-third the length without losing a single useful
detail. Heck, someone might even want to read it for reasons other than
querulousness.
I believe way too much of our policy and guidelines is made up of
rules devised for problematic cases. "Bad cases make bad law," it is
said, and our rules are made up that way a bit more than I like.
-Matt