[WikiEN-l] Original research or common sense inferral?

[Matthew Brown]

On 4/2/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> This appears to be the sort of obsession with replacing editorial
> judgement with rules that makes Wikipedia into a red tape obstacle
> course.
>
> Unfortunately, good sense and quality cannot in fact be Taylorised.

100% agreed with David here.

I'd add that any sufficiently complex system of rules can be
rules-lawyered by the intelligent and nitpicky to allow results not
anticipated by the rules' crafters.

-Matt