On 19 April 2012 15:38, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 19 April 2012 15:34, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
Those people, who do not have WP's
best interests at heart, are always arguing for a disconnect between the
letter and spirit of policy, because they have no interest at all in the
spirit.
Well, yes. The entire point of this paper is to demand a more gameable
system.
So the nuanced point would be that my model might need revision, if a
credible
group of "Benthamites" (sorry, I'm stuck in about 1820 here)
emerged who could make the case for a new codification of policy. This
week's Signpost article on paid editing is at least a straw in the wind.
Charles