[WikiEN-l] Oversized criticism sections and WP:UNDUE (was: Notability and ski resorts)

[George Herbert]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:59 PM, stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>> Hmm, I thought such "criticism sections" had been deprecated for quite a
>> few years now. One thing to do is to add {{criticism section}}, the
>> wording of which is what I recall (that criticism is better integrated
>> into an article).  In the hugeness case the integration would make the
>> article look like the "attack article" it probably is.
>> None of WP:CRIT, WP:NOCRIT and WP:CRIS addressing the issue seem to have made it past being an essay into a guideline.
>
> Strange, isn't it Charles, that the deprecation of criticism
> sections/articles would be the convention for "quite a few years now"
> and yet no attempt at its formalization has "made it past being an
> essay into a guideline" let alone policy?
>
> Stranger still, is it not, that this same invisible notion can still
> find abuse as the centerpiece of a large-enough edit war such that
> resulted in the poorly-conceptualized case given (disrespectfully) the
> Prez' name?
>
> More thing on my to-do list: Get Arbcom to actually deal with
> adjudicating policy and sections therein.
>
> - Stevertigo

Arbcom's job description and writ of authority don't include
adjudicating policy.

Suggestions that they might expand to do that, generally made by
community members, have been shot down by the community writ large and
by arbcom.


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