Wikipedia:You might be wikilawyering if...
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- 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.
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