[WikiEN-l] My views on policies and debates over content

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The concern that some feel about this is not, I believe, based on
their misunderstanding of Wikipedia's fundamental policies.  Rather,
it is about how those policies should be interpreted, enforced, and
utilised.

Personally, my concern is that policy interpretations based on highly
contentious articles may lead to poor general rules: "Hard cases make
bad law".  I'm also concerned that turning policies into rigid rules,
procedures, committees and the like may advantage those who like to
rules-lawyer over those with less patience for minutae.

Every rule set down in stone is a rule behind which a troll can hide. 
Or turn into a club to beat those they want to antagonize.

Every time we are tempted by instruction-creep, we should think "How
will this rule be abused by the ill-intentioned?"

-Matt (User:Morven)

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