[WikiEN-l] IAR

The Cunctator cunctator at gmail.com
Sun Oct 4 18:31:10 UTC 2009


Because it reminds people that the true responsibility to be a good
Wikipedian lies with themselves, and not official police or arbiters.

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 2:28 PM, stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
> > That's intrinsic to ignoring all rules.  If they could give you a rule
> > for when to ignore the rules, then they could codify that as a new rule
> and ignoring rules would never be necessary--every conceivable eventuality
> on Wikipedia would be covered by a rule. > The world doesn't work like that.
> > This policy relies on people trusting themselves to make decisions and
> > take actions that seem okay to them, knowing that if there is a
> > problem somebody else will spot it and fix it.
>
> How does IAR help limit Civility violations, personal attacks, and slander?
>
> -Stevertigo
>
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