On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>wrote:
> 2009/10/20 Ryan Delaney <[email protected]>: > > This is an important point. A proper application of IAR should go > unnoticed > > -- at least, by everyone except the "rules are rules" folks who memorize > the > > laws and are ready to deliver citations for all your transgressions > whenever > > you step a quarter inch out of line. If what you did was a good idea and > > everyone agrees it was a good idea, nobody should even notice that it was > > against the rules or that IAR was necessary. Explicitly announcing that > you > > are invoking IAR rarely accomplishes more than triggering "rules are > rules" > > responses and starting up another round of the perennial IAR > interpretation > > debates. (See what has happened in this very thread?) > > In an ideal world, that is how things would work. We don't live in an > ideal world. What actually happens is people complain that you having > followed the rules and never get as far as reading your explanation. > > You're right-- we don't live in an ideal world, and people often do insist on inappropriately citing policy as a response to a reasoned argument. You might notice that usually the people who do this do it on the basis of arguments rather like the ones you are making in this thread. -- causa sui _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
