Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-4544033-20150326212135/@comment-1251315-20150330191723

Bluesonic1 wrote: Yeah I guess that's true, but a comprehensive policy means we cover our asses incase people start causing flame wars regarding "why was X removed but not Y" and we give them a subjective reply as opposed to an objective one where we can say "You had no references whereas they did" or "Not enough evidence to support your theory whereas the other one did". Nah, I don't agree at all. Comprehensive policies just have the higher chance of being ignored by the community and causing more problems than they need to. Some things are just "common sense", they don't need to be stated. If an edit war starts, there's a talkpage to talk about the issue and sysops can temporarily place full protection on the article for a couple of days to ensure discussion is had about the issue. So yeah, it doesn't need to be complex.