On 20/08/05, Dan Grey dangrey@gmail.com wrote:
On 20/08/05, Essjay -Wikipedia- essjay-wiki@hotmail.com wrote:
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No, VfD can't touch policy, including proposed policy.
Why? VfD is a small corner of WP which isn't a terribly nice place and many people go nowhere near it. Therefore, it's incapable of ascertaining whether or not a policy page has consensus amongst the community.
More to the point - the policy does not exist "because there is a page on it". Wikipedia is not, as I believe a guideline says somewhere, a game of nomic; the existence of hard-and-fast policy is integral to the system, not just something we happened to write.
So you VfD WP:NPOV. Wow. Big deal. If it got deleted, all that it'd mean would be that we didn't have a page defining the NPOV policy (so someone would have to write it again). It wouldn't magically cause that policy to cease being a fundamental part of the project...