Ignore all Rules is common sense written into policy. The concept behind it
(at least to me) is that if ignoring the rules help you improve the
encyclopaedia (and that is your intent when you ignored the rules), there is
a decent chance that you are doing something right, even if it does not meet
our policy XYZ, section 3, subsection c. How it is to be used is another
matter, when ignoring the rules you probably have a decent rational behind
why doing so improves the encyclopaedia, otherwise its hard to justify
should someone ask. Merely shouting IAR when you don't like a particular
rule is not useful. But if you ignore the rules and the net benefit is to
the encyclopaedia (yes that thing we are trying to build ya know ;) ) then
its likely a useful action (edit whatever).
Ignore all rules is intended to be hard to pin down, to avoid codifying how
to ignore all rules ;).
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-- Cheers!, Eagle 101
On 6/18/07, Ken Arromdee <arromdee(a)rahul.net> wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Mark Gallagher wrote:
An extension of this is: if you have to cite IAR,
you're doing it wrong.
Sorry, I don't buy this one bit.
If you have to cite IAR to a reasonable person, you're doing it wrong.
But if someone says "I don't care how much sense violating that policy
makes, we cannot violate policy, period. Policies must not be violated
under
any circumstances", then you really do have to cite IAR to them.
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