Message: 5 Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 21:04:54 -0500 From: "Rory Stolzenberg" <rory096(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Opinions sought: linking source-access dates per MoS? To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org> Message-ID: <10011a3a0701011804p1d129e95pdf50af7eab570d12(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 1/1/07, Rory Stolzenberg" <rory096(a)gmail.com> wrote: And just where does WP:CONTEXT or any other guideline say that? From my reading it doesn't. Exceptions to rules or guidelines can't solely exist in the lacunae of convention and consensus, they need to be explicitly written. Until it's written as a de jure exception to WP:CONTEXT, I'd very much inclined to disagree with the above statement. Regards, Christopher D. Thieme (User:ExplorerCDT) P.S. Is it just me or does Wikipedia need a policy house-cleaning to fix up these contradictions and ambiguities? ~cdt _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

And just where does WP:CONTEXT or any other guideline say that? From my reading it doesn't. Exceptions to rules or guidelines can't solely exist in the lacunae of convention and consensus, they need to be explicitly written. Until it's written as a de jure exception to WP:CONTEXT, I'd very much inclined to disagree with the above statement.