On 4/8/06, Mark Gallagher m.g.gallagher@student.canberra.edu.au wrote:
- Policy is descriptive --- it *describes* what we already do, it attempts to document consensus. When we look to policy, it's because
IMHO, "policy is descriptive" is misleading. It's actually descriptively prescriptive. That is, it describes what people think we should do. It does not only describe what people actually do. Nor does it prescribe what people should do, without evidence that people actually want that (with a few rare exceptions like WP:OFFICE, that come "straight from the top").
Steve