Philip Sandifer wrote:
I don't think that this is a problem that is solved via policy. Policy is a relatively ineffectual medium. It does very little on its own. Policy doesn't drive off POV pushers - communities of editors - often very localized ones - do. Policy ostensibly guides them in how they do this, but as often as not it doesn't - just like most articles aren't actually written by consulting WP:V, WP:NOR, and WP:NPOV, but are written by a community of editors with a decent idea of what a good article should look like.
Our policies are almost, but not entirely incidental to the actual work of improving the encyclopedia - they're certainly a second line of defense, consulted when the first line of defense - social control
- fails.
In other words, what we need is not better policy, but rather better users who rely on thought and judgment that is informed by principles, not on rigid policy.
You know that policy has gone too far when the good guys are a bigger problem than the bad guys.
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