-----Original Message----- From: Ken Arromdee [mailto:arromdee@rahul.net] Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 12:14 PM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Original research: our secret pleasure?
On Sat, 26 May 2007, William Pietri wrote:
Personally, I feel that the rules we have, like the parts on an airplane, should be the minimum number necessary to achieve the goal. Anything else slows us down. Personally, until their's a problem, I'd rather leave WP:OR untouched. I think that Ken's case of rules-lawyer vandals is better solved by judicious application of [[WP:DICK]] rather than adding more rules.
The problem with rules lawyer vandals is that they are, by definition, following the rules. If you revert what they do, they'll just change it back (they usually stick around long enough for that) and you'll end up getting into a revert war and being considered the vandal for inserting original research or whatever.
Yes, we need to carve out an exception in policy.
Fred