" Obviously that's what got him concerned.  

 In the past, he has had a very positive view of wikipedia: Defense and illustration of Wikipedia where he stated: ""A more pragmatic look at Wikipedia as it exists today indicates that the project, while perhaps not living up to the hype of its most fervent promoters, has become a superbly useful tool for Web-based fact-finding."" 

 Finally he gave up, and the Wikipedia editors sent him on his way wishing him: ""Goodbye and good riddance."" and ""rv; enjoy your block"" 

 A little more flexiblity (as in ""Ignore all Rules"" and let in some blue code snippets (I don't even think that wikipedia has an official policy on the color for code snippets)) would have helped here, but the Ignore All Rules part of the trifecta is stressed quite a bit less than the NPOV and the ""Don't Be a Dick"" parts.  

 Maybe some kind of ""Ignore All Rules"" week would help. 
 

 :::Why don't you ignore all rules and vandalize this page, that would sure show everyone.   
 ::Please take a look at WP:IAR, vandalizing a page does not improve or maintain Wikipedia's quality.   

 :I don't see WP:IAR as the key to the issue that you mention.  NPOV and DBAD are just as applicable.  Whoever wrote the comments you mentioned (""...good riddance"", etc.) was wrong.  At the same time, looking at the changes, it looks like Mr. Meyer could have been more civil as well. 

 :Wiki is a different medium than other writing.  While the idea of wiki sounded fine, dealing with reality is a lot messier. I have a nice little mess of my own creating higher up this page.  The user in question (who might or might not by the real life Bertrand Meyer) didn't seem particularly interested in collaborating, and several users were understandably irate over this.  You can be brilliant in your field, but that doesn't buy instant privs or esteem.   

 :You must be willing and able to deal with other people if you want to be part of wikipedia.  No amount of ""ignoring all rules"" will change that.      

 :: I agree that the Eiffel discussion degenerated, but the initial conflict (non-content based conflict) occurred the editors were more interested in the rules  ""no code snippets may be blue"" and ""all code snippets for all programming languages must be in an identical format"" than in producing good Wikipedia content.   

 :::Please, anon, well first get an account.  For someone taking such a tone of superiority, hiding behind and IP address is quite unseemly.  But past that, you are blatantly and offensively misrepresnting this talk page and the article edit history.  No one said, ""we must blindly follow rules"".  Rather there was a discussion of ""What is the best style convention to follow, given the minor difference between WP style guides and those of Eiffel Software?"" Every editor, except Bertrand Meyer, discussed this in an open minded and collaborative way.  Meyer basically wrote: ""Fuck off, none of your opinions matter.""  This had nothing to do with obeying or disobeying rules... it was an open, polite, and joint discussion of the how best to improve the article.  Meyer could not stomach the last of those adjectives, especially (though he did not appear all that fond of the first two either). ×  

 :::: I disagree with much of your characterization of the event, but I've already given my view and you've given yours,  so that's that.    

 :::: ""Fuck off""? Where did Mr. Meyer say ""Fuck off""? That doesn't seem to be his style. And he never said that ""none of your opinions matter"", in those terms or any others. This is very bad  putting words in other people's mouths.   

 ::::: Fuchias, LotLE qualified the quote with ""basically"", clearly indicating the statements thereafter were LotLE's interpretation of statements made by Meyer.  To claim that LotLE is ""putting words in other people's mouths"", is at best misleading.     

 :: When admins post: ""I don't know how better to put it. Dr. Meyer doesn't make the rules here. Experienced Wikipedia editors know the rules here, and if Dr. Meyer refuses to learn fr