On 9/19/05, Matt Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
However, it also says that the purpose of Wikipedia comes first, the spirit of the rules second, and the letter of the rules third.
Those who treat the rules as a game to be played and loopholed around are well advised to remember this.
Indeed. One of the major subtexts of IAR is that policy is there to help write an encyclopedia; if policy gets in the way of that, policy is and should be ignored. Wikipedia is not a place for people to play at (or practice at) being lawyers, and people who wish to "wikilawyer" need to find somewhere else to do it. Wikipedia is not a Nomic.
Kelly