Tardis talk:You are bound by current policy

Rules and precedent
Najawin proposed at Tardis:Temporary forums that a thread be opened regarding T:BOUND and "how 'policy' also means on this wiki 'the way we currently do things'". I'm wondering if a forum thread is actually necessary for this. For years now, it's been universal practice that T:BOUND is the rule to cite when a talk page discussion begins and related edits to the corresponding page are disallowed until its conclusion – despite the fact that the policy, literally read, does not explicitly say this. So Najawin's proposal isn't so much a matter of changing the rule as updating it to reflect how it's always been cited. Over the past few years admins have sometimes changed policies like T:VS or created new ones like T:MERGE without first consulting the entire community because the changes were merely updates to reflect the already-existing universal understanding and implementation. Could the same approach be applied here? – n8 (☎) 14:09, 18 January 2023 (UTC)