on 4/29/07 11:14 AM, John Lee at johnleemk@gmail.com wrote:
as policy is descriptive, not prescriptive, use common sense when categorising, unless you feel the situation is too complex for your common sense to be right.
On 29/04/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
Perhaps the only solution here is to go back to the drawing board - blank the entire Policy Page, and start all over again.
on 4/29/07 4:35 PM, Andrew Gray at shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
And here we come to the fundamental problem. It's all very well to say we need to redevelop the category system, to say that the system is broken and failing and so on, but in order to do this we need to *decide what categories are*.
Absolutely!
We have yet to manage this. Everyone brings their own conceptions to the table; we regularly get complaints about the stupidity and wastefulness of the system, which are fundamentally just "my preferred concept of what this system is is not being used".
We need to sort this out before we go any further - and the problem is that both sides are entirely convinced that theirs is the self-evident only way to work.
I agree completely. My question is this: How is this sort of thing done in Wikipedia? What is the process? When something (a major, fundamental system of doing something, e.g.) that already exists in the encyclopedia is found to be problematic, or just plain isn't working well; what process do you go through to correct it, or to devise an alternative system?
I'm learning,
Marc Riddell