On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Phil Sandifer wrote:
On Apr 7, 2007, at 7:08 PM, Ken Arromdee wrote:
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Bryan Derksen wrote:
NPOV is a foundation policy. There are no exemptions for issues that affect Wikipedia directly.
Cool. Mind if I edit WP:IAR to take this into account?
Don't do this. Part of what IAR is a warranty against is if a policy page gets written to stop complying with the useful intent. An exemption for NPOV would leave us no defense if a bunch of policy wanks decided to do to it what has been done to so many other pages (DRV, RFA, RS, NOR...)
Well, I didn't really want to edit IAR for that, my point was more that this is currently a contradiction in the rules. NPOV says it may not be superseded by other policies or consensus, IAR says that it can supersede anything. I know it says that the *principles* may not be superseded, not the rule, so it isn't technically a contradiction, but it's about as close as you can get to a contradiction without bering one.
And I agree completely about NOR and RS.