Writing new guidelines that general folks understand 18 July 2009 These recent events have just re confirmed what I ve been telling people for years Wikipedia runs on mobocracy despite other people claiming for years No no WP decisions are made per logical reasoning in accordance with written policies Well actually that s not how decisions have been made for several years as of July 2009 I m not quite sure what the problem is with the wiki masses in this attitude that truth is a popularity contest There can t be a massive multi year wiki cabal so I suspect these mob judgments are simply what happens when ordinary folk are challenged to think Many school teachers have concluded that thinking must be taught to most people In America people are not allowed typically to become official judges without some type of formal judicial education where they must pass standards of clear thinking Not just anyone can sit on the bench and start making decisions that affect thousands of other people We have to write reality based guidelines with totally obvious examples so that anyone could understand them The wiki masses don t follow concepts such as significant coverage in reliable sources I must conclude the current WP policies are like wiki calculus for the masses They can not calculate wiki integrals of the policies to reach a logical conclusion Hence the current policies are a failure for coordinating general editors So these bogus AfD discussions are such a waste of time re hashing misunderstandings as confirmed by popularity votes We have to write policy essays to explain actual examples to be followed I don t think there s any other hope Most people just don t understand the current policy points no matter how carefully that text is quoted in discussions They see NOTINHERITED and that s the extend of their reading 2 words is a policy to them Perhaps they started to read the policy text yawn and re zoned to the 2 words period To be readable we must list obvious examples such as the one event R M S Titanic generating 50 notables Plus those examples must be listed in easy to read essays no consensus required so when we put WP BIGEVENT they know that historically big single events have generated numerous notables e g Lee Harvey Oswald Jack Ruby in JFK assassination Charles Manson Manson family in Sharon Tate etc murders It s the only way to defeat the notion that exceptions to the intricate policies must be determined by intense debates of popularity votes No instead big event notability can be explained by a simple essay of examples We need those policy essays to shift the mass voting