User:Scott/Notes/Founding principles

I recently happened across WP:CONEXCEPT, an obscure redirect that's existed since 2007 but had as of September 2015.

When the shortcut was created, a link to Founding principles (which at the time was called "Foundation Issues"), and which persisted on it until 2009. The differences between the version of that page at the time and as it is at the time of writing make for interesting reading. The "founding issues" have gone from being "beyond debate" to being able to "evolve or change over time" (in fact, #2 has changed to be significantly different from what it actually was at the time of founding), and a tone of "love it or leave it" authoritarianism has entered the introduction.

If something about this is giving you déjà vu, it may be that you're being reminded of the Seven Commandments of Animalism. It seems that I'm far from the first to notice this, as well.