On 6/25/07, michael west michawest@gmail.com wrote:
three years was a joke (you could spend three years in college and may not be able to graduate in wikipediapolicy). bland joke. If Wikipedia is to be great, (We want that?) we want everyone capable of understanding wikipediapolicy (We want that?). If everyone doesn't uderstand Wikipediapolicy to the finist detail then they must be cruft or newb. We won't help them learn the mysteries we will give the pages uopon pages of WP: . Not every editor is going to understand finite points of policy, that is why Wikipedia is exclusive and not so inclusive as we all say it is on our welcome templates. How can we really welcome people when we have just posted an spd tag? or reduced them to three sentences? I love Wikipedia. I think it is the greatest resource that we have but cant we let people know what they are in for? apart from the lil tag that says you may be deleted? We are about being BOLD but why hide this simple truth? Mike33
Maybe because we all assume it's a given that nobody will ever understand every policy and guideline there is out there. To me, it's already understood, in the same way that it's a given nobody will ever know every law on the statute books. It's not desirable, but it's preferable to anarchy.
Johnleemk