I treat ideas like civility and NPOV as prionciples rather than rules.
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There is only one rule : don't offend the "cabal" (or any of the cliques w admin members), or you will be punished. The policies as written seem nice, but they have nothing to do with who is punished and who is not. Quality of articles has nothing to do with it either. Nepotism determines everything.
Please see my list of wikipedia's pro's and con's, if your interested in why your losing volunteers and creating "trolls".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_arbitration/Sam_Spa...
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