In 22/02/2008, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
You've completely missed my point. I didn't say "How long will it take for someone to add show/hide tags to [[Clitoris]]?" I said "How long will it take for the *edit war* to start on [[Clitoris]]?". I'm not making a judgement on whether or not the images should be hidden, I'm pointing out that without a policy, we're going to get edit wars, and those *are* inherently bad.
Yes, but we get edit wars over *everything*. There'll be an edit war, we'll reach a compromise, it's over and done with.
To quote myself (because I haven't thought of a better way of putting it yet):
"Common sense will stop it being applied grossly inappropriately; I can trust our community on that. Our fundamental guiding principle is that people can reach consensus on everything [...] Saying we don't trust people to reach consensus on applying a tool if we let them start using it... well, if we used that logic every time we allowed people to do things, we'd never have had a wiki."
Edit wars are undesirable, but they are also a normal cost of doing business with our model. Something causing edit wars is... well, to be expected if discouraged.