On 8/21/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/21/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
(Whatever happened to my project to give the policy/guidelines collection a much-needed enema this year ...)
I think we should schedule 6 monthly enemas. Every policy should be rewritten from scratch every 6 months, only incorporating the absolutely most critical and still relevant sections from the preceding version.
The policy pages I watch are fairly cruft immune.. because they are mostly meta policies, doctrine not process....
But there are certainly a lot of policies which do get crufted... but suggesting we nuke them ignores one of the primary causes of the crufting: They get crufted because there either isn't anyone with an interest in stopping it, or some malfunction in our community is allowing the one-rule-per-mistake-made crowd to have editorial control of the page.
Simply nuking the pages from orbit would not solve this.... and it would quickly drive the folks who've worked so carefully on our more balanced non-crufted policies totally insane as new users decide they can (ab)use that policy to rewrite our policies in their own image.