[Wikipedia-l] "Drive-by tagging" advice needed

[Ray Saintonge]

David Gerard wrote:

>On 31/08/06, Maury Markowitz <maury_markowitz at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>But David, I was wondering if you would consider starting an article on
>>"procedural obsessives"? It seems that simply pointing people towards such
>>an article would be a much more neutral way to deal with it than posting a
>>personal message on their talk page. THAT can easily be misinterpreted as
>>someone trying to protect "their" article.
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>*splutter* To say this is a contentious issue is an understatement.
>
>See [[:en:Wikipedia:Ignore All Rules]] is one. Now, I'd like you to
>read the talk page and the history of that page. A lot of people HATED
>it passionately and did their best to kill it or at least neuter it.
>But Jimbo has stated it's obviously policy, because product beats
>process.
>
>See [[:en:Wikipedia:Process is Important]]. Which, of course, it is.
>
>See [[m:Instruction creep]]. And its history ... in which you can see
>how it was instruction-crept.
>
>See [[m:Don't be a dick]] and the attempts to kill that, most notably
>by claiming it must be deleted because the translation would be
>unacceptably rude in Japanese.
>
These seem like some of the most important policies ... or am I just 
showing my age?  As for the last one, the Japanese will just have to 
read it in English. ;-)

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