You could either ( a ) let them in and keep an eye on them, or ( b ) declare them to be " enemies " and thereby convince them that Wikipedia is " their " enemy, thus inspiring sneakiness and subversive behavior, or ( c ) do something different.
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Walker, whom you may remember as the lifelong Republican who periodically works himself into a justified snit over Dick Cheney's sneakiness, says the GAO monitors a wide variety of activity in the federal government to try to " ensure its relevance for the 21st century . " ( Yeah, I know.
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For instance, the sentence " " A banana is a fruit that ripens to a yellow color and has a high sugar content " " mostly precludes the'cowardly'implication of'yellow'. of course, the spin-doctors will object, and it will turn into a protracted dispute about grammar, but you can leverage the approach to bring the sneakiness of the language out into the open .-- Ludwigs 2 22 : 56, 28 June 2010 ( UTC)
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I don't think this is the case, particularly with their reliance on extra-judicial means : as Dissident noted above, " can you blame outsiders for finding the whole sneakiness about this entire affair troubling ? " Even I, having decided that Wikipedia is a lost cause, sometimes wonder if Wikipedia's dysfunction is worse even than I imagine : it strains credulity for me to imagine anything that would lead to the level of secrecy and opacicity that is insisted upon with regard to me.
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:In my opinion, we need a massive thrashing out of this somewhere not necessarily to get a conclusive ruling ( impossible, anyway, because people are free to do and say what they like off Wikipedia ), but because I'm sure it will result in an informal code-of-conduct and some principles of etiquette ( and hopefully moderation ) emerging consensually among the majority of administrators which will serve in future to stifle most outbreaks of nastiness, sneakiness, or inappropriate specificity on a small group of agreed channels.
