Ray Saintonge wrote
I do not
support your apparent view that Wikipedia's exponential growth is
somehow justification for an exponential growth in the corpus of its
policies and guidelines.
That is not my view. I have scarcely had anything to do with policy/guideline pages, since
arriving in 2003. You might note that [[Wikipedia:Spam]], which logically is only a
subsection in the 'conflict of interest' area, is by itself a page of perhaps
comparable length. The logic is to get the right high-level pages set up, so that the
basic principles are put forward in a few places, and detailed material hangs off those.
(I have actually also argued for a handbook approach, since it seems to me utopian to
think Wikipedia in its current state is not easily comprehensible. I could have wished for
more support on that front.)
Charles
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