2009/10/1 Ken Arromdee <arrom...@rahul.net>: > Well, the last time I ran into this was the way IAR is worded. For such a > short rule it has a huge flaw: it says you can only ignore rules for the > purpose of improving or maintaining the encyclopedia. The result is people > constantly claiming that you can't ignore rules for BLP or privacy concerns, > since helping the BLP subject is not a form of improving the encyclopedia. > Obviously it would be overkill to edit IAR itself, but nobody was even > interested on the talk page of WIARM, except one person who said that it's > okay that's badly worded because our rules don't literally mean what they say.
Handy guide to IAR: If the reactions to your actions when you try to apply IAR are "you're clueless", then perhaps you don't understand IAR. But, by all means, do please keep posting to wikien-l about IAR. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
