On 16 November 2012 13:11, Andreas Kolbe jayen466@gmail.com wrote:
The supreme irony here is that Wikipedia set out to be open, in contrast to the ivory tower of academe. Yet over the space of a decade, Wikipedia has become so involved, and its policy so impenetrable and contradictory, that people are now making a living from guiding others through it.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune_system#Layered_defense . It's about living in the real world.
It is quite possible for policies to contradict each other, or be in tension. I don't regard this as one of our major issues, however.
Charles