[Foundation-l] Hi, Jimmy Wales, Is there inspectors to investigate admin

[David Gerard]

On 11/09/06, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> valdelli at bluemail.ch wrote:

> > IMHO we have a lot of helps, guidelines and so on... it is a good
> > initiative but we should reduce them looking to integrate as soon as
> > possible.
> > The community should have a small number and clair rules.
> > No rules is anarchy, more rules is burocracy... the risk is to have
> > rules which try to solve the same problem but with contradictory
> > solution.


Yes, yes and yes.


> Rules are not necessarily that great. It is much more important to have
> clear guidelines. With rules people weasel there way around the words,
> twist their meaning because as a rule a rule has to be non ambiguous.
> With guidelines or principles this is not possible because their value
> is not in their explicit phrasing but in what they implicitly try to say.


Yep.


> A rule is telling others what they have to do. A guideline or a
> principle is there to tell what we are doing.


I've observed on en: some editors who think it's better to state
guidelines as hard policy. I don't think this works at all, but it's
an observed tendency some have.


- d.