The Cunctator wrote:
I should continue: everyone has a habit of modifying
policy through their
actions on Wikipedia. I have a habit of modifying policy explicitly. As
should everyone else.
I have changed policy pages to reflect de facto policies that I disagree
with as well as ones that I agree with.
The policy pages aren't sacred and shouldn't be considered as such; but they
should be followed. If you (being a reasonable and good person) think it is
unreasonable or detrimental to follow something on a policy page, then you
should change the policy page.
IOW, the policy pages _describe_ project policy, they don't _define_ it.
It's been frequently noted that policy and documentation pages aren't
always consistent with practice. Sometimes this means the pages should
be changed, sometimes this means practice should be changed, sometimes
it means both.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)