[WikiEN-l] Policy across different languages

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 8/29/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/29/06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It would be useful if someone could translate some of this for those
> > of us who do not read russian.
>
> as far as I can figure out from machine translations the policy has
> recently been translated from English and they are now trying to get
> community approval. Most of the opposition appears to be from those
> who think it is over ridged and that cites should only need to be
> provided in cases where something has been challanged.

This is the practice on enwiki in any case. Cites are recommended but
not mandatory unless there is a dispute.  Here we have an example of
where the complex real policy mismatching the clearly stated written
policy is causing problems.