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Wikipedia : You might be wikilawyering if...
With apologies to Jeff Foxworthy You might be Wikilawyering if... ...you cite more than 2 policies or guidelines in one sentence.
...you point out that WP:ACRONYM1 is a policy (/guideline/essay), while WP:ACRONYM2 is only a guideline (/essay/policy).
...you check whether something is a policy, guideline, or essay before citing it.
...you care whether something is a policy, a guideline, or an essay.
...you attempt to change a page's status from policy, guideline, or essay into any of the others so that other editors won't be "confused".
...you're posting to ANI , and you're not laughing while doing it.
...you tell someone that their "vote " doesn't "count".
...you explain why you don't have to "assume good faith".
...you reread WP:AGF to decide whether or not you still have to.
...you respond to a block for edit warring by arguing that your fourth revert was more than 24 hours after your first one.
...you agree that, logically , something makes sense, but you still argue against it based on one sentence of a policy.
...you notice that a policy or guideline doesn't support your position, so you edit the policy or guideline.
...you point out that WP:OR and WP:SYN actually point to the same policy.
...you mention in your unblock request that blocking is not supposed to be punitive.
...your interpretations of any policy, guideline, or essay contradict each other.
...you cite previous discussions as "User X vs. User Y".
...you tell every user asking for clarification that they can't handle the truth .
...your responses to criticism begin with "Objection !"
...you didn't agree that something on this page was funny, and you can prove it with a policy.
...you cite WP:IAR in a discussion. And finally, you might be Wikilawyering if... ...people keep telling you that you're Wikilawyering.
...you think the term "common sense" in the Wikilawyering page only applies to hive minds .
...you talk about other cases as if you are citing case law.
...you have a philosophy major and therefore claim that mere rules are not real, constructs of our mind, and assigning them purpose saturates our human minds as we try to create our own, wasting precious time that the Supreme Cabal gave us.
Adminitis Ain't no rules says a dog can't play basketball Akin's Laws of Article Writing Alternatives to edit warring ANI flu Anti-Wikipedian Anti-Wikipedianism Articlecountitis Asshole John rule Assume bad faith Assume faith Assume good wraith Assume stupidity Assume that everyone's assuming good faith, assuming that you are assuming good faith Avoid using preview button Avoid using wikilinks Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense Barnstaritis Before they were notable BOLD, revert, revert, revert Boston Tea Party Butterfly effect CaPiTaLiZaTiOn MuCh? Complete bollocks Counting forks Counting juntas Crap Don't stuff beans up your nose Don't-give-a-fuckism Don't abbreviate "Wikipedia" as "Wiki"! Don't delete the main page Editcountitis Edits Per Day Editsummarisis Editing under the influence Embrace Stop Signs Emerson Fart Five Fs of Wikipedia Funny biographical images Seven Ages of Editor, by Will E. Spear-Shake Go ahead, vandalize How many Wikipedians does it take to change a lightbulb? How to get away with UPE How to put up a straight pole by pushing it at an angle How to vandalize correctly How to win a citation war Ignore all essays Ignore every single rule Is that even an essay? Mess with the templates My local pond Newcomers are delicious, so go ahead and bite them Legal vandalism List of jokes about Wikipedia LTTAUTMAOK No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man No episcopal threats No one cares about your garage band No one really cares No, really No sorcery threats Notability is not eternal Oops Defense Play the game Please be a giant dick, so we can ban you Please bite the newbies Please do not murder the newcomers Pledge of Tranquility R-e-s-p-e-c-t Requests for medication Requirements for adminship Rouge admin Rouge editor Sarcasm is really helpful Sausages for tasting The Night Before Wikimas The first rule of Wikipedia The Five Pillars of Untruth Things that should not be surprising The WikiBible Watchlistitis We are deletionist! Wikipedia is an MMORPG Yes legal threats You don't have to be mad to work here, but You should not write meaningless lists
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