On 8/31/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 31/08/06, Maury Markowitz maury_markowitz@hotmail.com wrote:
But David, I was wondering if you would consider starting an article on "procedural obsessives"? It seems that simply pointing people towards
such
an article would be a much more neutral way to deal with it than posting
a
personal message on their talk page. THAT can easily be misinterpreted
as
someone trying to protect "their" article.
*splutter* To say this is a contentious issue is an understatement.
See [[:en:Wikipedia:Ignore All Rules]] is one. Now, I'd like you to read the talk page and the history of that page. A lot of people HATED it passionately and did their best to kill it or at least neuter it. But Jimbo has stated it's obviously policy, because product beats process.
See [[:en:Wikipedia:Process is Important]]. Which, of course, it is.
See [[m:Instruction creep]]. And its history ... in which you can see how it was instruction-crept.
See [[m:Don't be a dick]] and the attempts to kill that, most notably by claiming it must be deleted because the translation would be unacceptably rude in Japanese.
And a bit related, [[en:Wikipedia:Wikilawyering]] which (quote) "clearly exploits and perpetrates a host of biased and derogatory stereotypes"
:)
Garion96