On 04/10/2009, FT2 <ft2.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
No. I'm saying IAR ensures that /if/ an admin
wishes to act against a
genuinely problematic editor, wikilawyering ("but policy allows what I
did!") won't easy prevent them doing so.
To be perfectly honest, I think the potential problems of 'wishes of
admin' are worse than any problems of wikilawyering.
I've never been ganged up on by a bunch of policies, but I've
certainly been ganged up on by a bunch of admins.
In a project where anyone can write wordings, the
communal sense of the
spirit of a policy, and its pre-eminence, is quite a significant thing.
Indeed, it was the policies that stopped them. And that's what
concerns me about the attacks on wikilawyering. Rules are intended to
*avoid* problems.
FT2
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-Ian Woollard