Wikipedia talk:Historical archive/Rules to consider

In my opinion this page belongs on meta with some kind of ratification or transport of the most interesting discussion to an appropriate editing guidelines file on Wikipedia. It seems silly to me to be voting on rules, the first of which is to ignore them if you choose, and then be jumping all over people who break them either unwittingly or intentionally. user:mirwin —Preceding undated comment added 20:01, 15 April 2002‎ (UTC)

Seeing as how people aren't voting on them, I hardly see the point. People are placing their names on what they do and don't support. I found this incredibly useful when I was a newbie, because it gave me a lot of insight into who the other wikipedians were. Also, knowing what rules are even under consideration (or active and virulent debate) helps a newbie get insight into the workings of the wikipedia. I advise all newbies to look at it, as well as checking out homepages and other contributions of their fellow wikipedians before randomly editing all the work put into existing articles. Having this on the main site makes it much more accessible to the people who can most benefit -- putting it on meta just reinforces the very false opinion that this is some kind of arcana of a ruling cabal. JHK —Preceding undated comment added 20:18, 15 April 2002‎ (UTC)