On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Carl Beckhorn cbeckhorn@fastmail.fm wrote:
For most articles, editors are able to come to agreement on the talk page about whether a particular claim is accurate and about whether it should be included. In some sense, articles where the editors won't or can't come to such agreement represent a breakdown or failure of the wiki process. We shouldn't write our policies in a way that encourages this dysfunctional situation.
- Carl
No, we should write our policies to deal with this dysfunctional situation when it arises. Which it tends to do independent of what policy says.
RR