[s-b] Proposal: Use Sequential Rule Numbers

["Roger Hicks" <pidgepot@xxxxxxxxx>]

I submit the following proposal:

Use Sequential Rule Numbers
{
Amend Rule 1-8 to read:
{{
Rules are Game Documents that define how this game is played. Each
Rule may have a Name and a Number. Whenever a new rule is created it
is given the next highest sequential number that has not yet been used
for a rule.

Rules may be contained in named Sections.

There exists a ministry known as the Ministry of Law. The Minister of
Law, also known as the Rulekeeper, is responsible for maintaining a
Public Display of the current Rules and Victory Conditions.

The Rulekeeper may, as a Game Action, do any of the following:

    * Create a Section.
    * Remove a Section, causing all Rules in that section to no longer
be contained by a Section.
    * Move a Rule into or out of a Section.
}}

One second after the adoption of this proposal, each rule in the
ruleset is renumbered. Beginning with rule 0, and continuing
sequentially by section number and then by rule number, each rule is
re-assigned a new sequential integer number beginning with the number
0. Then the text of all rules is amended so that any rule which refers
to another rule by number now refers to the new number for that rule.

[[NOTE: Under the current system of arbitrarily assigned rule-numbers,
it is difficult to look back on past archives and determine the nature
of conversations based upon their rule number. Under this new system,
each and every rule would be assigned a unique permanent number. Rules
could also be tracked individually on the wiki by rule number, and
therefore allow players to create links to specific rules that will
not break.]]
}

BobTHJ
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