On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Leiv Hellebo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> Chris has replied to you on the history and the officialness of the CSG,
> I'll answer more directly.
>
> Brian Schweitzer wrote: > Not to be totally sidetracked, though, the
> point here you may think is
> > unimportant, but I would disagree.  If we go around saying that this
> > or that guideline is unofficial just because it never went through
> > this or that proposal process, we'll never get anything done.
> > Partially, esp with regards to CSG, the reason I reacted is because I
> > have myself run into situations where even autoeditors have made the
> > claim that "that guideline isn't technically official, so we're free
> > to disregard it".  Open that door for classical, and we'll have chaos,
> > where what I think we all would love is to find a way to make both
> > sets of classical guidelines, for tracks and works, happen.
>
> With regards to the SMP, this thread has brought up two (perhaps three)
> arguments to follow the CSG for it:
> 1) More information is better information
> 2) The CSG should be followed because it is the CSG
>
> (There's also Andrew's argument, but I think it'll be hard to make an
> official guide out of it ;)
>

Wait, what? :)
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