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You are ''kind of'' mistaken. My "position in terms of the hierarchy of the wiki" is that I am one of the principal authors and executors of policy on the wiki. This means that I have to have read the hundreds of forum discussions that have taken place already, and then synthesise them into policies that are as simple and easy-to-follow as is possible. This not only respects the work of people who've come before, but it hopefully stops a lot of needless debates by including points that have already been raised. | You are ''kind of'' mistaken. My "position in terms of the hierarchy of the wiki" is that I am one of the principal authors and executors of policy on the wiki. This means that I have to have read the hundreds of forum discussions that have taken place already, and then synthesise them into policies that are as simple and easy-to-follow as is possible. This not only respects the work of people who've come before, but it hopefully stops a lot of needless debates by including points that have already been raised. | ||
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We have a simple mechanism before us that will largely turn inclusion ''debates'' into inclusion ''notices''. Does the producer/writer/copyright holder say the story is not set in the DWU? If they do, then we don't cover it. Simple. Easy. Elegant. That question frees us as admin from having to relitigate the fundamentals of the policy every time some publisher tries to attract a few thousand ''Doctor Who'' fans to a project they can't or won't say is related to ''Doctor Who''. Best of all, it's '''based upon the previous work of the community as a whole'''. This simple litmus test isn't ''my'' invention, so much as the logical distillation of what a number of users have said ''through the years''. | We have a simple mechanism before us that will largely turn inclusion ''debates'' into inclusion ''notices''. Does the producer/writer/copyright holder say the story is not set in the DWU? If they do, then we don't cover it. Simple. Easy. Elegant. That question frees us as admin from having to relitigate the fundamentals of the policy every time some publisher tries to attract a few thousand ''Doctor Who'' fans to a project they can't or won't say is related to ''Doctor Who''. Best of all, it's '''based upon the previous work of the community as a whole'''. This simple litmus test isn't ''my'' invention, so much as the logical distillation of what a number of users have said ''through the years''. | ||
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