Wikipedia:Policy sculpting: inclusion versus exclusion

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Some sculptors have described the process of sculpting as removing the parts of the stone that are not part of the sculpture.  I think that this analogy applies for the core content policies of WP:Verifiability and WP:Due_weight.  WP:Verifiability is a rule for inclusion. WP:Verifiability is like picking the block of stone from which the sculpture will be made.  What happens next is that in WP:Due_weight we have rules for exclusion.  Here we remove un-interesting parts of the block of stone.  In the end we want balance (WP:NPOV), not a mound of what wasn't removed.

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Some sculptors have described the process of sculpting as removing the parts of the stone that are not part of the sculpture.  I think that this analogy applies for the core content policies of WP:Verifiability and WP:Due_weight.  WP:Verifiability is primarily a rule for inclusion  WP:Verifiability is like picking the block of stone from which the sculpture will be made.  What happens next is that in WP:Due_weight we have rules for exclusion.  Here we remove un-interesting parts of the block of stone.  In addition, WP:Verifiability protects from exclusion verifiable material that editors might otherwise spend time debating as being untrue.  In the end we want balance (WP:NPOV), not a mound of what wasn't removed.