--- The Cunctator cunctator@kband.com wrote:
Of course, the rest of you who subscribe to the mailing list clearly feel that it's necessary to lock down the policy pages, so vive la revolution!
Silly. The rest of me who subscribes to the list thinks it is:
a) foolish to lock the policy pages for fear of people changing them, and
b) foolish to advocate changing them whenever you disagree with what they say.
In the case of a, I've all ready made my arguments; check the list archives if you're interested.
As for b, it's always been my understanding the the policy pages are simply descriptive; actual policy comes from working on the encyclopedia and discussing things with your fellow Wikipedians. The policy pages simply describe the results of that process. Directly editing those pages in order to *change* policy negates any possible value of the pages. As Brion said, they don't define policy, they describe it. Your idea of editing the policy pages to come to a consensus, rather than coming to a consensus and then describing it, is similiar to re-writing your dictionary to change the meaning of words.
Stephen G.
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