In a message dated 3/13/2008 11:06:38 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, kmw@armory.com writes:
We're not obligated to engage in bureaucratic masturbation.
We're supposed to do what's right, "policies" and "rules" be damned.>> ------------------------------ Sorry I can't quite agree with that. IAR should only, imho, be invoked in extremely rare situations.
Regardless, plot summaries are addressed as I pointed out already, within policy, so there is no reason to invoke IAR in this circumstance.
Will Johnson
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On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 3:39 PM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
Sorry I can't quite agree with that. IAR should only, imho, be invoked in extremely rare situations.
Regardless, plot summaries are addressed as I pointed out already, within policy, so there is no reason to invoke IAR in this circumstance.
This is somewhat orthogonal to the discussion at hand, but I feel I need to comment here. I speak only for myself, but I, at least, Ignore All Rules every time I do anything. The only time I don't Ignore All Rules is if I am not sure what to do. The reason for this is that I tend to have fairly good judgment, and therefore my actions typically (I flatter myself) benefit wikipedia. In such cases, whether my actions are according to any particular rules is immaterial. All that matters is that wikipedia is benefited. Period.
There's a reason IAR is a core policy of wikipedia, and that reason is most emphatically *not* "ensuring that people don't follow it except in extraordinary situations".
Tracy Poff