WT:NOR#Terminology
As you might have been able to tell last night, it was very late and I was quickly tiring. I hope my response to your comment made clear I fully agreed with what you saidIMO wikilawyering and disagreements about how to apply policy to practice will not stop as a consequence of, as you said, "sanding down" policy language. (Though I'm not at all opposed to sanding down rough edges.) And yes, dispute resolution is a separate process altogether. Disputes about policy arise because simply people have differing views and are looking for arguments in favor of their respective views. By and large they don't appear to me to be a result of poor policy language. ...