User blog comment:Sannse/Navigating the Wilds of Adminship/@comment-6301973-20130802045241/@comment-8-20130806174546

That sounds like very useful work Lhikan634

Actually, policies are an area that I think can need balance too. A very small or young wiki probably doesn't need too many policies. As a wiki gets larger, it can become more important to get things written down.

That said, there's a risk with too many or too specific policies - and that's what I like to call "rules lawyers". That's people who look at the policies, and do things just outside them. Or that fit the wording of the policy, but not quite the intent. Sometimes you need a bit of flexibility in your policies to say "actually, that might not exactly be the outside the formal rules, but it's wrong and I'm going to stop you"