Macha Revisions

If the policy were to say that some things should be decided by a vote, I think the number of people actually discussing things on instead of having revision wars. And even if it is still a small minority voting, it's not like those decisions would be final; if a lot people who didn't vote end up hating a change that was made, the talk page is still there.

Wouldn't an absolute policy on something like trivia have to be insanely long to cover everything?

If the wikipedia page is any example, not really. If we strip out the legalese that article isn't too long.

It won't be a listing of specifically allowed or disallowed things, of course.

The policy in that page isn't very absolute.