2007/1/28, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com:
Oh, for god's sake. More common sense needed, obviously.
That particular statement is supposed to be applied as (example case):
Don't get me wrong now... common sense requires a certain amount of background information, usually. You have the background information, so you know how that should be read...
I completely agree with David Gerard on the scaling issue. You can say "there are far too many policy wonks on the English Wikipedia" all you like; just how does that make them go away? Hence, one might realise some things will be misunderstood in context and try and change them. That seems to me a more logical reaction than crying out loud every time people do the same kind of mistake, and wait for next time it happens. This particular case of policy insanity probably has wells, so it might be possible to try and do something about it slightly more upstream.
/habj