[Wikipedia-l] "Drive-by tagging" advice needed

[Garion96]

On 8/31/06, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 31/08/06, Maury Markowitz <maury_markowitz at 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.


And a bit related, [[en:Wikipedia:Wikilawyering]] which (quote) "clearly
exploits and perpetrates a host of biased and derogatory stereotypes"

:)

Garion96