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:Policies aren't written in stone. They can change and evolve over time. So I have no objections to this. '''[[:User:K6ka|K6ka]]''' ([[:User talk:K6ka|talk]] | [[:Special:Contributions/K6ka|contribs]]) 13:39, January 27, 2014 (UTC)
::Don't really see any problems with this and I've read it a fair few times. New policies will surely bring new life to the community, so I'm all for that. [[User:Beds|<font color="#6B1D51">'''Beds'''</font>]] <sup>([[User_talk:Beds|<font color="#512d17">'''parlare'''</font>]] - [[User_blog:Beds|<font color="#512d17">'''da leggere'''</font>]])</sup> 17:03, January 27, 2014 (UTC)
K6ka, I think it's important to remember that Wikipedia and TSW do differ in some ways. Rules on Wikipedia are few and far between (the only ones that come to mind have to do with legal issues - copyright, biographies on living people, etc). Because of the nature of this community and Wikia, there are a fair few more rules here, and it's harder to [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Ignore all rules|"ignore all rules"]]. That means the rules we do have need to be clearly-defined and approved by the community. All the rules outlined on [[The Sims Wiki:Policy/General Policies]] and the individual policy pages (Image and File, Notability, et al) were at one time or another agreed to by the community.
Writing the rules down and sending them through an approval process isn't as flexible as simply letting the policies evolve over time, or writing policies to conform to current practices - that's where our guidelines come in. Our guidelines (e.g. AGF) reflect established principles, which can change over time. They don't require a definitive decision by the community, they only require that the community continue to support the concepts behind the guidelines. On the whole, this proposal is meant to clarify what is an "absolute" policy - one that can't be ignored and needs explicit community approval to change, and what is a "flexible" guideline - one that need not be precisely defined and which can be adapted or ignored based on the situation. -- '''[[User:LostInRiverview|<font color="navy">LostInRiverview</font>]]<sup> [[User_talk:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">talk</font>]] ~ [[User_blog:LostInRiverview|<font color="green">blog</font>]]</sup>''' 18:48, January 27, 2014 (UTC)
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