On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Tony Sidaway wrote:
Ignore all rules regularly fills up with useless
encrustations of
rubbish and needs emptying out. You too can help with this. The
only
wording you need is that it's Wikipedia policy and it goes something
like "If the rules stop you improving Wikipedia, ignore them." Just
toss all the rest out.
This fails utterly. The usual method of abuse is for someone to
say "that
doesn't count as improving Wikipedia". Usually this means someone
claims that
1) some other rule defines what it means to improve Wikipedia (at
which point
IAR becomes useless, of course), or 2) external considerations like
not
harming BLP subjects don't "improve Wikipedia" since they don't
help readers
of Wikipedia articles.
It sounds like you're trying to find a way to mechanically apply IAR.
Don't do that.
-Phil