On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Oldak Quill wrote:
If you propose an exemption where the policies conflict, I'm sure most would support you.
So a newcomer sees 20 paragraphs about how you're not supposed to edit your own article, and then a sentence saying otherwise.
I don't think that'll work unless you make the exemption prominent enough that it doesn't seem like an afterthought to anyone reading the page. And that I don't think is possible. Ideally, we should soften the language that implies a near-absolute prohibition, but nobody will stand for that.