On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 00:58, Daniel Mayer wrote:
On Saturday 07 September 2002 06:05 am, you wrote:
I didn't know that certain policy pages were frozen. What was the reasoning behind it?
Stephen Gilbert
Because policy cannot be changed without some kind of consensus first.
Or to put it cynically, so that the policy cannot be changed (in the WikiWay).
A fuller explanation of the reasoning has to do with the history of the creation of the Meta site, and the development of contentious policy pages such as those on entry deletion and the definition of Wikipedia vandalism, during LMS's reign.
--tc