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Large Organizations and the application of rules

As an organization grows, it requires rules to give it cohesion and ensure it does not lose direction. One way of checking the health of an organization is to examine how the rules are applied when perceived problems occur. Broadly, it is possible to find three approaches.

Rules used as a defence against anarchy: "There must be a rule I can use to stop this tiny problem before it destroys us all"
Rules for their own sake: "You cannot do that, rule 27b says so. I don't care if the building is on fire, rule 27b says you may not leave via the ground floor window - you might damage the tulips.
Rules to achieve the organization's aims: "Let's see now, there must be a way we can sort this obvious problem. And if we cannot, we need to create a way - and then review the rules to find out how we got in this state."

Choose, as they say, your weapon! Best wishes, Heenan73

"fourth-generation languages"

(moved from Talk:Programming language)

Mention needs to be made of first-generation, second-generation &/c as a classification of programming languages, which I'll do myself unless anyone wants to beat me to it :) Dysprosia 06:41, 25 Nov 2003 (UTC)

I always thought the "generation" thing was nonsense, but if you want to list it for historical reasons, I have no objection. -Doradus 01:52, 26 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Perhaps Generational list of programming languages would be the appropriate place for you to mention "fourth-generation languages" ? --DavidCary 15:36, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Homosexuality in China

Hey, I have rearranged the article Homosexuality in China to make it more clear, could you check that out and give me your opinion? Thx! :) --Yacht (talk) 05:55, Jul 27, 2004 (UTC)

Sure. I'll do so later tonight. Dysprosia 06:26, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)

thanks a lot for ur help. i have changed the "campaigner" into "sexology scholar", because there is no such "campaigner" (CPC government) in China. but i don't know if that make sense or not? --Yacht (talk) 17:53, Jul 28, 2004 (UTC)

Scarlet fever -> Group A streptococcal infection
Since those are redirections that I shortcut if there is something to change then it should be done at that root, no? Marc Venot 03:31, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Califia

What exactly has Califia to do with Teena and Araujo? Dysprosia 08:46, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Transphobia. Two of the above were victims of it, one of the above is an author who writes about it. Dlloyd 09:33, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. Could you perhaps make this a bit clearer on the Califia page? Either I didn't read the article properly, or there was no text saying such, so I could make that connection. On another note, would it be best to single just Teena and Araujo out? Did Califia write about those two cases specifically? Dysprosia 10:07, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)

You're welcome. I'll certainly make this clearer on the Califia page. The connection between Teena, Araujo, and Califia to *me* is one of notability. Teena and Araujo are notable because both were murdered for reasons of gender identity, Califia is probably one of the most notable popular authors on gender identity issues. Califia wrote an article on Araujo. Dlloyd 10:35, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC) Ok, good. But do you see where I am coming from? Many others were murdered or were otherwise victims of transphobia, but since Califia wrote an article on Araujo, this should be fine. Perhaps we should have the link to "Remembering Our Dead" or have a similar Wikipedia-based page, and then link to that? Dysprosia 11:34, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC) I see your POV. The link between Teena and Araujo is far stronger for obvious reasons. Dlloyd 11:39, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC) I don't mean to be difficult. I just want to understand where you're coming from. What is the link between Teena and Araujo? Dysprosia 11:54, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC) The link between Teena and Araujo is that both were murdered in the USA when their birth sex was discovered. The links between the Teena and Araujo Wikipedia articles were already in place before I edited the articles. Dlloyd 12:40, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Okay, I think everything's clear. The links between them perhaps should probably be properly qualified so this is clear, I'll do so. Thanks for your help again. Dysprosia 12:53, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)

You're welcome. Dlloyd 10:01, 1 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Apologies and Thanks

I actually thought I was fixing the double redirect- I apparently got confused when reading the clean-up page. I'll make sure to double check in the future. Thanks for fixing it, although if you see me do something like that again, leave me a note- I'll do the gruntwork, it was my fault. Thanks! Lyellin 06:33, Aug 3, 2004 (UTC)

Actually, when going through my watch list just now, I realized that I had actually fixed double redirects, which then got created into double redirects again, as a page move from Devil_Sticks, to Devil_sticks occured in between the time I edited the redirects, and the time you edited them. Irregardless, thanks, cause I would have had to do it again. Lyellin 06:40, Aug 3, 2004 (UTC)

Whoops.

I only put that article in top-level Category:Mathematics because I had no idea which sub-category to put it in — the jargon is somewhat hard to understand, and I figured that someone more knowledgeable would be able to place it in the more correct category at a later time. :) Neutrality 00:19, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)

tertiary operator

Oops... now that I think about it, maybe "tertiary operator" is an inappropriate term for "ternary operator." Thanks for moving/merging/editing the article. --NeuronExMachina 20:27, 22 Aug 2004 (UTC)