In a message dated 3/14/2008 7:20:30 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, thomas.dalton@gmail.com writes:
Wikipedia runs of consensus, it doesn't run on rules imposed from on high (expect for a few specific things like NPOV, non-free content, etc).>>
--------------------------- None of our policy is "imposed from on high", it was all created by consensus. And it can still change by consensus.
The only thing with which we stated was very vague general concepts. Go back to the *first* edition of NOR and compare it to today's edition.
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None of our policy is "imposed from on high", it was all created by consensus. And it can still change by consensus.
I don't think that's true. As I understand it, NPOV (as a basic principle) is imposed by the foundation (obviously, it pre-dates the foundation, but now there is a foundation, they impose it), and can't be changed without their approval. Same applies to the basic principles of the use of non-free content.
On 14/03/2008, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
None of our policy is "imposed from on high", it was all created by consensus. And it can still change by consensus.
I don't think that's true. As I understand it, NPOV (as a basic principle) is imposed by the foundation (obviously, it pre-dates the foundation, but now there is a foundation, they impose it), and can't be changed without their approval. Same applies to the basic principles of the use of non-free content.
PS After looking it up, I'm not sure that's quite right about NPOV. It's what I've heard people say, but it's not what the policy itself says - the confusion may be because it's on the list of "foundation issues" on meta, but I think that's using foundation to mean what the projects are built on rather than the legal entity... There are definitely imposed rules about non-free content, though.