[WikiEN-l] "Assume good faith" is no longer policy.

[George Herbert]

On 12/17/06, Kat Walsh <mindspillage at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/17/06, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 12/17/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > It's become a guideline. Ho hum.
> > >
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith
> >
> > So much for policy changes being discussed widely prior to implimentation...
>
> It was called a guideline for a year before someone called it policy a
> few months ago. I haven't seen much difference in its treatment.
>
> I would be more concerned if I thought it made any practical
> difference what sort of template got stuck on top of it; it's not as
> though it were an easily enforceable bright-line rule to begin with.
> It is simply necessary to avoid killing each other, sometimes, and so
> people tend to regard it as a Good Idea and try to hold others to it
> no matter what designation gets slapped atop it.
>
> (As a side note, there is discussion about its status on the talk page.)
>
> -Kat

I don't particularly feel driven to see it either one way or the
other; it's important, and it should be there.

What's disturbing is that it's gone through a series of status and
content gyrations leading to a borderline wheel-war, and I get to find
out about it via wikien-l..


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com