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Revision as of 16:33, 31 August 2016
If a rule prevents you from improving Wikipedia, ignore it.
By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well. That is one of the ends for which they exist ...
Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in cases where it does not fit, is pedantry ... To apply a rule with natural ease, with judgment, noticing the cases where it fits, and without ever letting the words of the rule obscure the purpose of the action or the opportunities of the situation, is mastery.
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Past discussion can be seen through the History page
Responses
... due to a variety of reasons; Be back, when I come around the Kansas City Metro Area.
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New criticism, comments, and feedback
From time to time I'll respond here and delete the old content; see history if you want the archive. --J. D. Redding 05:50, 13 June 2014 (UTC)