On 01/10/06, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
Phil Sandifer wrote:
On Oct 1, 2006, at 4:50 AM, Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:
I hear you. Perhaps that long discussed speedy criterion for "advertisements masquerading as articles" should be introduced.
Oh God, please no. You have no idea what that would become in the hands of some of our admins.
Is there anything we can do about *that* problem? If we can't at least document our norms for fear of the documentation being misused, that sounds like a precarious situation.
Write guidelines as guidelines, go out of your way to avoid didactic language? This was an important stylistic consideration in the proposed rewrite of [[Wikipedia:Blocking policy]].
"Convention as at [date] includes ..." might be worth a try.
- d.