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

[Ken Arromdee]

If the law just said "no jaywalking", but the police started arresting
everyone who crossed away from a crosswalk, and there was no court which
could tell the police that their interpretation of "jaywalking" was wrong,
then the police have de-facto made policy.  (Especially if the police are
also empowered to hand out sentences, which actual police don't do.)

However much anyone says that Arbcom doesn't make policy, given that the
rules are complicated and often ambiguous, "deciding whether something fits
existing policy" is often the same as "making policy".  So you just end up
with Arbcom making policy and pretending not to.  And then you get
Wikipedians who need a policy decision and recognize on some level that
Arbcom makes policy, but need to go through hoops phrasing their complaint
so that Arbcom can answer it "without making policy".