Look, James, I know that it's fun slandering me, but I would appreciate it if you could stop for a second and actually read what I wrote. Thanks.
Yes I did read what you wrote and no I am not slandering you. I have a great deal of respect for you but I think unilaterally rewriting a policy page without a debate is grossly wrong. I am not always on wiki, neither are most people. How are we to know if you have made a major change to a page if by the time we come on your change has slipped from the Recent Changes list, unless we go into every policy page and link it to our watchlist. A debate can only happen if people know about it.
There are plenty of things on the policy pages that I believe are misguided but I would not dream of going on and unilaterally changing them. I have noticed a few changes to policy pages (not by you BTW). I always presumed that they must have been debated and agreed first and that I had simply missed the debate. Now you have me wondering if every change ''was'' debated or if they were the unilateral work of some user that no-one noticed in time, they know becoming a 'rule' by default.
JT.
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Look, James, I know that it's fun slandering me, but I would appreciate it if you could stop for a second and actually read what I wrote. Thanks.
Yes I did read what you wrote and no I am not slandering you. I have a great deal of respect for you but I think unilaterally rewriting a policy page without a debate is grossly wrong. I am not always on wiki, neither are most people. How are we to know if you have made a major change
I explicitly stated that authors should not make major changes to policy pages without prior discussion. Heck, my change was a minor clarification and in line with my previous discussion with 172, and I still announced it on the mailing list! I described what has long been common practice. Now if you want me to come to your house with a megaphone the next time I intend to make a change to a policy page, well, I can do that, but you have to cover the traveling costs.
Regards,
Erik