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Comment author: PhilGoetz 29 September 2011 10:12:38PM 4 points [-]

The best outcome would be for some neutral writer to step in, receive support from both of you, and then adjust the article to accurately reflect the consensus(es) and controversy(ies), in that order.

I'm not asking for resolution of this page, because I don't expect to have time to get into an in-depth debate over group selection for at least a couple of months.

Really, I want to know a) what the legal facts are, b) who sets policy and what the policy is, and c) what the community thinks the policy should be.

Comment author: jimrandomh 29 September 2011 10:54:20PM 2 points [-]

b) who sets policy and what the policy is, and c) what the community thinks the policy should be.

No one has set a policy and there is no policy. There is no authority who could set policy unilaterally, but anyone could set a policy if it sounded reasonable, they put it on a wiki page, they did so at a time when no controversies that the policy would refer to were active, and no one came forward to object.

Comment author: wedrifid 29 September 2011 10:58:38PM 3 points [-]

but anyone could set a policy if it sounded reasonable, they put it on a wiki page, they did so at a time when no controversies that the policy would refer to were active, and no one came forward to object.

I don't think people are likely to approve if said someone skipped the 'propose strategy to others' phase and went straight to setting it. Even if they would otherwise not really care about the subject. (And their is good reason to have that sort of aversion.)

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