101:. In the computing industry, or in other areas of human endeavour, not staffed by volunteers, upper management may think it makes sense to authorize senior people to ignore the questions from more junior people. They can count on those junior people showing up to work the next day, even if their questions and concerns are ignored, because their motivation is their salary. Here on the WMF projects our good faith volunteers motivations are the feeling they are doing a good job, and the feeling their efforts to do a good job are appreciated.
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contradict other policies. We also rely on long-established conventions, which require experience, and sound judgement, to interpret and apply. Finally, both our policies, and our conventions, are undergoing a slow evolution, meaning no single individual can expect to be fully able to interpret how all policies and conventions apply to a particular situation, at any particular time.
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