[WikiEN-l] A narrower concept of boldness

[Tony Sidaway]

On 6/7/07, Todd Allen <toddmallen at gmail.com> 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!)
>

Semi-true.  If you can't explain why your edit improved the
encyclopedia, citing "Ignore all rules" won't help you.  If you can,
then it will be seen by others as a valid application of the
principle.