On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Steve Bennett <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Ryan Delaney <[email protected]> > wrote: > > to the end. Rather than saying "I am invoking IAR and I did this because > X", > > just say "I did this because X." > > Disagree. The response to "I did this because X" is, "But there's rule > Y, which you should have followed." Explicitly evoking IAR makes it > clear that you know about Y, and have a reason for ignoring it. > It would be context-dependent, but it would not be an response to say "You should have followed rule Y" without a reason to follow the rule. The fact that the policy implies that it is a rule is not in itself any reason to follow it. - causa sui _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
