On 5/21/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
The point is that it needs readability to be useful.
In practice at present it's primary use is for editors of questionable social skill to use it as a stick for hitting other editors they are having an argument with, and is edited as a game of [[Nomic]].
I would strongly disagree with that. While there is certainly some argument going on about different points of the policy (as there are about any policy), I'm convinced that the vast, vast majority of people uses the MOS as simply a reference (I certainly do), and don't edit it once. I think it is completely wrong to say that "it's primary use is for editors of questionable social skill to use it as a stick for hitting other editors they are having an argument with". I think that this is one of those times when it is hard to see beyond the tiny minority of people who do nothing but argue and argue all day. They make the most noise, but they represent only a fraction of the wikipedia user-base.