Travis Mason-Bushman wrote:
Have you read some of the comments on that page's
Talk page? They wish
eventually to entirely abolish [[WP:IAR]] "and expunge its history."
That certainly doesn't surprise me. It certainly is a problem for
people who feel that rules are necessary to make make life livable.
The idea that "process is important"
inherently puts rules and bureaucracy
above writing an encyclopaedia - and we are here to write an encyclopaedia,
correct? What [[WP:IAR]] states at its root is a principle that is central
to Wikipedia - that is to say, that if you're doing what you believe is
something that will benefit the encyclopaedia, damn the rules and do it
anyway.
As a rule IAR should take second place only to "Assume good faith".
Ec