[WikiEN-l] A narrower concept of boldness

[Todd Allen]

Phil Sandifer wrote:
> On Jun 7, 2007, at 10:01 AM, Ken Arromdee wrote:
>
>   
>> On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Tony Sidaway wrote:
>>     
>>> Ignore all rules regularly fills up with useless encrustations of
>>> rubbish and needs emptying out.  You too can help with this.  The  
>>> only
>>> wording you need is  that it's Wikipedia policy and it goes something
>>> like "If the rules stop you improving Wikipedia, ignore them."  Just
>>> toss all the rest out.
>>>       
>> This fails utterly.  The usual method of abuse is for someone to  
>> say "that
>> doesn't count as improving Wikipedia".  Usually this means someone  
>> claims that
>> 1) some other rule defines what it means to improve Wikipedia (at  
>> which point
>> IAR becomes useless, of course), or 2) external considerations like  
>> not
>> harming BLP subjects don't "improve Wikipedia" since they don't  
>> help readers
>> of Wikipedia articles.
>>     
>
> It sounds like you're trying to find a way to mechanically apply IAR.
>
> Don't do that.
>
> -Phil
>
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If you ever have to explicitly invoke IAR, you're doing it wrong. If
you're doing it right, there's such a clear need for what you did that
you can just state that, never having to mention IAR at all. If you're
-really- doing it right, then what you're doing is so blazingly obvious
no one will even think to question it at all. (If you're running into
pretty stiff resistance while using it, you're probably doing it wrong
too-ignoring the rules is not license to ignore other people!)

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