On 10 May 2010 23:14, Ken Arromdee <arrom...@rahul.net> wrote: > I suggest that this is a piss-poor way to create Wikipedia policy. There's > a substantial contingent of policy wonks who take any blanket policy statement > as gospel and use it as an excuse to avoid even *trying* to figure out if > some suggested exception to that policy is a good idea on the grounds that > we don't do such things, ever. It's a triumph of rules lawyering over > common sense. Of course, when questioned they will admit that exceptions > are allowed, but their attitude to any proposed exception remains the same.
I realise Wikipedia is a perpetual ever-refreshing Year Zero, but last time someone put together a series of options I do recall that they were resoundingly voted down: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_censorship Perhaps the time is ripe for another try. (I doubt it myself.) - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
