Hoi, The policies of the English language Wikipedia have evolved over many years and they suit a large world wide audience who is largely part of the Anglo American world. Many other Wikipedias reflect a culture which is distinctly different. with different value systems. These projects slowly but surely grow and evolve. They will look at the example that is given by the English language Wikipedia and they deserve the right to make the policies their own.
We do not have a "council" or another body that helps with the assimilation of these concepts. Other concepts that are imho as important like the need for citations are not part yet of many projects because these projects do not have the maturity for this. This will also be a problem in the BLP project Cary wants to set up. Many projects just do not have the ability to adopt the overhead for what are essential policies in our more mature projects even arguably essential in all projects. The only real solution is for our projects is to mature and challenge existing dogmas. We will mature as an organisation as a consequence. Thanks, GerardM 2009/8/6 Jade Harold <jadehar...@gmail.com> > >Trying to press a en.wp policy(especially one as broad and controversial > as WP:NOT) on anyone else is foolish and likely to be resisted. > > Pete, I disagree with you especially in a case that a local project > try to omit key concepts such as Consensus Policy. WP:NOT#DEMO and > WP:NOTLAW are generally approved by broad members and these items > define well the basic behavior of community decision making and > treatment of rules of Wikipedia, based on Consensus. I rather feel it > foolish to eliminate these stuff if someone in the local already > notice the importance. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l