hooray for godwin! On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 6:48 PM, stevertigo <stv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> stevertigo wrote: > >> Are you're really just saying that IAR allows only the *good* > >> dicks to act like dicks? > FT2 wrote: > > No. I'm saying IAR ensures that /if/ an admin wishes to act > > against a genuinely problematic editor, wikilawyering ("but > > policy allows what I did!") won't easy prevent them doing so. > > Breaking that down: > > 5) There is nothing "easy" about "wikilawyering." Blocking for > "wikilawyering" on the other hand can be quite dickish.4) > "Wikilawyering" is just a subjective ad-hominem (I'm alleged to be an > expert, so I should know). Its an under-handed label that has meaning > only because Arbcom is short-handed. > 3) "genuinely problematic editor" is a total oxymoron (editors are not > problematic), in addition to being a quarrelsome subjective, if > "genuinely" is not [[well-defined]]. > 2) "/if/ an admin wishes..." has to be a joke: 'If and only if > [anyone] really really wants to...' "If an admin wishes" cannot > qualify as a definition. > 1) "IAR ensures" has to be a joke: i.e. 'this caveat guarantees...' > > > [if] policy has an unfortunate wording loophole, > > you can make an indfividual judgment on it." > > I try to do that all the time, but my opposition in particular > squabbled lately have *also* cited IAR to violate even Civil (an > actual pillar). IAR only creates discordian paradoxes. > > > In a project where anyone can write wordings, the communal > > sense of the spirit of a policy, and its pre-eminence, is quite a > > significant thing. > > "Communal sense" does'nt mean anything -- the Nazis had one also. We > don't let "wikiality" guide article development for a reason -- why > should "wikiality" continue to guide policy? > > -Stevertigo > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l