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Wikipedia talk:Policies and guidelines
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Recent changes re changes
Ever a lover of self-referential situations, I have made some changes to the policy regarding changes to policy. I have tried to deal with the issue of disputed/underdiscussion tags, and hopefully have succeeded in differentiating two different situations - where someone is proposing a change, and where someone is actually disputing the consensus-ness of the existing version. I would like some more input over this though, particularly since I've been involved in disputes over such tags recently, and I wouldn't want to be accused of offending against the very section I've just edited by "gaming the system".--Kotniski (talk) 18:49, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
- (This is my input, which may be only partly relevant.)
- Just as, in many aspects of the physical universe (including biological phenomena) and in many fields of human inquiry, there is dynamic tension between order and chaos, and between rigidity and flexibility, so also I envisage the same to exist in the fields of designing policies, guidelines, and style guides. Therefore, I find it to be desirable that there be at least some clarification if not absolute definition regarding what things are fixed and what things are changeable, or to what degrees and in what ways they are such; and, also, some clarification or definition stating what are the minimum requirements (if there are any) for changeable features to be changed.
- -- Wavelength (talk) 21:37, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
- I think we would possibly all agree with that, but to try and pin it down to something concrete, do you think the current wording of this page achieves these noble aims to any significant degree, and how specifically could it do it better?--Kotniski (talk) 22:23, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
- Kotniski—your changes look good. Tony (talk) 12:53, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
