On 6/25/07, michael west <michawest(a)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