On 11/12/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/11/06, Ken Arromdee arromdee@rahul.net wrote:
That may be consistent with your view of the "ordinary person", but others may see it differently. Avoidance is a restriction that one applies on one's own self. It does not depend on the imposition of external authority. It favours the exercise of judgement and the ability to know one's own limits.
My point is that anyone who reads that will interpret the *intentions of the writer* to be that the act is not allowed. It doesn't matter what he thinks avoidance is, but what he thinks the policy-maker meant by it.
Really, whenever we say "avoid doing X", what we're trying to say something like "don't do X without a damn good reason, and by that we mean something which we would consider a damn good reason, not something which happens to be important to you."
It's just kind of hard to put it snappily. Suggestions appreciated.
I think it's phrased fine if that's what you want it to say.
I just don't think we should be saying that about participating in a deletion discussion "about articles related to your organization or its competitors". (*)
Anthony
(*) Unless it's meant as a subset of the suggestion that everyone avoid deletion discussions on any topic, in which case it's probably a good suggestion.