Contributors to Wikipedia make policy every time they edit *any* article, not just policy pages.
If you care about a particular policy page, put it on your watch list.
Truculence notwithstanding, The Cuncator has a point. What Ed Poor says here is imminently sensible.
Tom Parmenter Ortolan88
|From: "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com |Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 09:02:06 -0400 | |Clearly, policy is formed through the give and take between what |regular contributors habitually do, and discussions _about_ these |contributions. As Stephen pointed out, the "policy pages" are more a |reflection of what we all have already come to agreement (or at least |consensus) on. | |However, there is nothing wrong with letting J. Random User edit any |of the policy pages. If their idea is good, the regular crew will |likely adopt it. If it's egregiously bad, someone will revert it. | |I would prefer, if someone reverts a dumb policy idea, that they copy |the deleted text to talk and discuss it. We could also bring the |issue, if warranted to the mailing list for further discussion (a la |Larry Sanger). | |We could even _invite_ the person who started it, to join the mailing list. | |Ed Poor