On 6/7/07, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
If you ever have to explicitly invoke IAR, you're doing it wrong. If you're doing it right, there's such a clear need for what you did that you can just state that, never having to mention IAR at all. If you're -really- doing it right, then what you're doing is so blazingly obvious no one will even think to question it at all. (If you're running into pretty stiff resistance while using it, you're probably doing it wrong too-ignoring the rules is not license to ignore other people!)
Semi-true. If you can't explain why your edit improved the encyclopedia, citing "Ignore all rules" won't help you. If you can, then it will be seen by others as a valid application of the principle.