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 <[email protected]> wrote: > Tony Sidaway <[email protected]> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
