On 14/03/2008, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
None of our policy is "imposed from on high", it was all created by consensus. And it can still change by consensus.
I don't think that's true. As I understand it, NPOV (as a basic principle) is imposed by the foundation (obviously, it pre-dates the foundation, but now there is a foundation, they impose it), and can't be changed without their approval. Same applies to the basic principles of the use of non-free content.
PS After looking it up, I'm not sure that's quite right about NPOV. It's what I've heard people say, but it's not what the policy itself says - the confusion may be because it's on the list of "foundation issues" on meta, but I think that's using foundation to mean what the projects are built on rather than the legal entity... There are definitely imposed rules about non-free content, though.