gosh i'm impressed with your diligence i had forgotten about leaving this message the good news is i quickly moved on from that page and sought other projects the bad news is i subsequently discovered as you've described that many policy pages get 'occupied' permanently by a few editorial 'authorities' between june and august i made many many hours long improvements to policy pages which were quickly reverted it was very demoralizing and now i only edit in the article space i think the best i e most altruistic account for this phenomenon came from user slimvirgin who suggested that longtime editors often grow to rely on the verbatim text of policies because for example they find it useful to quote the text in disputes with newbies so that's a legitimate reason why policy pages can become so darn resistant to improvements i was saddened to see that policy pages are afflicted by chronic sclerosis but i consider it a learning experience and i've happily returned to adding material to the article space cheers talk wp hornbook