On 10/2/09, Ian Woollard <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem is, IAR doesn't specify or imply what they mean by > 'improve'.
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. It's an anti-policy, a way of saying that the rules are only there to make things better and they should not ever be used to stop that happening. There is a theory that when everybody finally understands Ignore all Rules it will be taken away and replaced by something even more baffling. There are some people who say this has already happened. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
