BaseballWiki has developed a body of policies and guidelines which have helped us over the years to work toward our goal of creating a free encyclopedia. While we try to respect consensus, BaseballWiki is not a democracy, and its governance can be inconsistent. Hence there is disagreement between those who believe rules should be explicitly stated and those who feel that written rules are inherently inadequate to cover every possible variation of problematic or disruptive behavior. In either case, a user who acts against the spirit of our written policies may be reprimanded, even if technically no rule has been violated.