I remember
discussing this with at least one developer at some point.
It should be doable in a way that doesn't hardcode the English
Wikipedia's policies - or so I'm told. I wasn't convinced - I think
people are so used to the policies that they don't realise when they
are assuming them.
If you mean that people are so entrenched in bureaucracy that they
miss the big picture, I'll agree with you on this point.
No, that's not what I mean at all. People were talking about how to
automate the deletion process and were coming up with methods that
would require people to do their deletions in the same (or similar)
ways as the English Wikipedia. People didn't realise that they were
implicitly assuming that deletions would be taking place according to
enwiki policy.