On 21/06/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/21/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
Absolutely. We seek to minimise the potential harm where that is possible without compromising the encyclopedia.
As soon as you bring in things not directly related to writing the encyclopedia in (and do no harm isn't at least outside the article on wicca) you compromise the encyclopedia.
It's a pity that our first step was to compromise it so immensely by all that "free content" rules, then.
Geni, there are no hard and fast lines. We shouldn't avoid making policies because we can't define the edge cases - as with your worries about people creatively misinterpreting the living-people rules to somehow prevent us writing about anything organic - and we shouldn't avoid making them because they won't make the project divinely perfect at a stroke.
No silly attempt to misread or twist the rules to the detriment of the project will last against common sense. (Well, not on a statistically significant rate. Two million pages is always hard to say absolutely never...)