[WikiEN-l] Bad And Wrong Policy/Procedure/Guideline Hitlist

Sat Nov 4 09:35:38 UTC 2006

Angela wrote:

>I don't really object to either A7 or G11, but the idea that these
>bits of jargon justify a deletion is a problem. Especially since when
>new criteria are added, A7 may become A8, leaving anyone looking at
>the deletion log in future very confused. Most people wanting to know
>why something was deleted will have no idea what these codes mean and
>it gives a bad impression that you need to understand this sort of
>thing to get involved with the project.
>
Absolutely!

>Blocking people for having usernames in non-Latin characters is the
>worst policy I've seen on Wikipedia. It's going to become even worse
>when we have single login and people from the wikis that use other
>alphabets find they need to log out before editing or risk a permanent
>block of their username.
>
Single login?  Is it really going to happen?  Otherwise a good point.  
It will probably need to be abandoned with single login.

>Other policies are sometimes fine, but their application is
>inconsistent which gives an appearance to unfairness, so perhaps the
>application of these ought to be looked at - not just the policies
>themselves.
>
True again.  The problem here is also the large mass of rules which 
people seem to want to forever expand under the guise of clarification.  
This pprocess of imagining everything that could go wrong and providing 
a rule for that eventuality is counterproductive.  When we have too many 
laws we just stop reading and understanding them.  Even those who 
purport to enforce those laws have kimited time available and will tend 
to enforce only those laws which they personally think to be important.

Ec