[WikiEN-l] Original research: our secret pleasure?

[Fred Bauder]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ken Arromdee [mailto:arromdee at rahul.net]
>Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 12:14 PM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Original research: our secret pleasure?
>
>On Sat, 26 May 2007, William Pietri wrote:
>> Personally, I feel that the rules we have, like the parts on an 
>> airplane, should be the minimum number necessary to achieve the goal. 
>> Anything else slows us down. Personally, until their's a problem, I'd 
>> rather leave WP:OR untouched. I think that Ken's case of rules-lawyer 
>> vandals is better solved by judicious application of [[WP:DICK]] rather 
>> than adding more rules.
>
>The problem with rules lawyer vandals is that they are, by definition,
>following the rules. If you revert what they do, they'll just change it
>back (they usually stick around long enough for that) and you'll end up
>getting into a revert war and being considered the vandal for inserting
>original research or whatever.

Yes, we need to carve out an exception in policy.

Fred