On 8/30/06, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
There's an obvious appeal to having simple policies, but in many cases that leads to a reinvention of the wheel many times over and some very bitter disputes. Somewhere on a level near "guideline" could potentially exist something like "here's how we thought about this previously, this may or may not be applicable in the future" which doesn't exist for the sheer purpose of shutting down discussion. (But maybe in the end that's what policy is about anyhow, on some level.)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:NBD - you may want to add something about at least recording non-binding precedent.
Steve