Removing common sense from editing mainspace

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Veralann·11/21/2016 in Community Discussions

Now, I know what you're thinking. Put away those pitchforks
So in the past, common sense has caused many disagreements between editors. Things such as whether or not this article should follow this format, whether this image goes here or not, whether this section should link to this page, things such as whether or not something explicitly stated in the MoS should actually be put on an article, among other things. In any case, it hasn't really been that helpful to anyone, as it just kinda makes editors unhappy with each other. So I propose we remove common sense as it applies to article editing, and just add hard exceptions to specific things that need them, which will be discussed below.

TL;DR: common sense in editing causes issues, so remove the source of the problem

Note: this will not remove common sense from other aspects of the wiki, such as chat.

(Edited by Veralann)

Brick425·11/22/2016

FiretigerIsMLG wrote:
yes yes

Good reasons. I change my opinion.

For the people who don't get obvious sarcasm: I don't change my opinion.

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Som1udontno·11/22/2016

Common sense is entirely too common. I say we abandon it in favour of rare sense.

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Tadonyx·11/22/2016

I think people like admins should use common sense because they know what they're doing. But for everyone else, no.

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Tadonyx·11/22/2016

Som1udontno wrote: Common sense is entirely too common. I say we abandon it in favour of rare sense.

I agree with this.

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TheShadowAssassin·11/22/2016

QuantumHedgehog wrote:
I think people like admins should use common sense because they know what they're doing. But for everyone else, no.

The administrators have proven time and time again that they lack any common sense.

Of course, the only reason I'm saying this is because common sense is subjective and my idea of what should be "common sense" is vastly differently from others, in some aspects. This is why I hate the UCS guidelines and whatnot.

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