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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