The desirability discussion presumably needs greater notice in the technical discussion. Many people (myself included) consider separation of technical methods of implementing a highly debatable policy decision from debate of the desirability of that policy decision to be artificial and disingenuous at best. Doing so appears to make the debatable social decision a fait accompli. Trying to send *all* criticism off to a separate article is also a favourite tool of POV warriors on en: and presumably elsewhere; possibly this is seen as reminiscent of that.
I conquer with David Gerard, he stated very eloquently how I feel on this subject. Before even thinking about technical implication lets first debate if we want it or not. As I understand it the developers have been asked already to program this? How can that be if we didn't even agree on such a feature in the first place.
Walter van Kalken