On 31/08/06, Maury Markowitz <maury_markowitz(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
But David, I was wondering if you would consider
starting an article on
"procedural obsessives"? It seems that simply pointing people towards such
an article would be a much more neutral way to deal with it than posting a
personal message on their talk page. THAT can easily be misinterpreted as
someone trying to protect "their" article.
*splutter* To say this is a contentious issue is an understatement.
See [[:en:Wikipedia:Ignore All Rules]] is one. Now, I'd like you to
read the talk page and the history of that page. A lot of people HATED
it passionately and did their best to kill it or at least neuter it.
But Jimbo has stated it's obviously policy, because product beats
process.
See [[:en:Wikipedia:Process is Important]]. Which, of course, it is.
See [[m:Instruction creep]]. And its history ... in which you can see
how it was instruction-crept.
See [[m:Don't be a dick]] and the attempts to kill that, most notably
by claiming it must be deleted because the translation would be
unacceptably rude in Japanese.
- d.