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On 6/5/07, Steve Bennett XXXXXXXXX@XXXXX.XXX wrote:
...to accuse people of "slavishly" applying policy at a place designed for the application of policy is unfair. That's what they're supposed to be doing there.
Wikipedia is governed by policies and principles, not rules and regulations. They're treating a guideline like a statute.
...and obviously a guideline can have an /occasional exception/. A policy should be treated like a statute, if not as one.
- -- Charli (vishwin60/zelzany) Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music. ~Marcus Brigstocke