On Fri, 4 Feb 2011, Fred Bauder wrote: > Clearly there are issues. I'm on Jimbo's side with this though. Some of > my earliest edit wars were over whether The People's Republic of China > could be described in the introduction as a totalitarian dictatorship. > What has currently been hit on is "single-party state governed by the > Communist Party of China (CPC)." with a link to "single-party state" an > artificial construct for which there is little published authority. > > We can't get so picky and bound up in rules that stating the obvious is > forbidden.
It's easy for someone who is a little too anal-retentive at following rules to cause trouble, because the fact that he *is* following rules makes it so much easier for him to push his demands. And if you rules-lawyer, it's still easy to get away with it. The reason is that having the rules on your side gives you one *heck* of an edge in any dispute. It's occasionally possible for common sense to triumph over rules, but only in the very obvious cases will this happen--if the person following the rules isn't demanding something so outrageous that anyone can see how bad it is instantly, it'll work. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
