On 8/30/06, Fastfission <fastfission(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There's an obvious appeal to having simple
policies, but in many cases
that leads to a reinvention of the wheel many times over and some very
bitter disputes. Somewhere on a level near "guideline" could
potentially exist something like "here's how we thought about this
previously, this may or may not be applicable in the future" which
doesn't exist for the sheer purpose of shutting down discussion. (But
maybe in the end that's what policy is about anyhow, on some level.)
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:NBD - you may want to add
something about at least recording non-binding precedent.
Steve