[WikiEN-l] A narrower concept of boldness

[Phil Sandifer]

On Jun 7, 2007, at 1:55 PM, Todd Allen wrote:

> 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!)

This would be true if we did not have a substantial number of robotic  
process monkeys who seem unwilling to advance their thought processes  
beyond "but the guideline says..." In these cases, it is often  
helpful to mention in passing that [[WP:IAR | ignoring]] the  
guideline is in fact fair play.

-Phil