Explaining the value

I agree that the current wording leans too much into being a broad editorial requirement that can get in the way of writing good articles.

Rather than simply removing the paragraph, I would suggest replacing it with what we mean with agency as a value that can influence our analytical judgments.

I would suggest that instead of deleting the paragraph, we could replace it with something like this:

Human agency as a value means that Agpedia holds it to be a central good. What widens people’s agency is a benefit; what shrinks it is a harm. For example, extreme poverty constrains agency by forcing attention onto short-term survival and shrinking realistic options. Agency is not the only good: one person’s agency can limit another’s, and health, safety or the natural world can weigh against it. Agpedia’s position is that agency always counts, not that it settles every question, and not that every article must judge.

That sounds good to me, thanks! Will incorporate