[WikiEN-l] Pointless deletions, bogus guidelines

[Ray Saintonge]

Travis Mason-Bushman wrote:

>Have you read some of the comments on that page's Talk page? They wish
>eventually to entirely abolish [[WP:IAR]] "and expunge its history."
>
That certainly doesn't surprise me.  It certainly is a problem for 
people who feel that rules are necessary to make make life livable.

>The idea that "process is important" inherently puts rules and bureaucracy
>above writing an encyclopaedia - and we are here to write an encyclopaedia,
>correct? What [[WP:IAR]] states at its root is a principle that is central
>to Wikipedia - that is to say, that if you're doing what you believe is
>something that will benefit the encyclopaedia, damn the rules and do it
>anyway.
>
As a rule IAR should take second place only to "Assume good faith".

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