wikilawyering
nounEtymology From wiki + lawyering.
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Engaging in legalistic arguments on a wiki.
- […] comments like these about "Jew-baiting" are very rare on even the most contentious of "discussion" and "mediation" pages. What one finds there instead is wikilawyering — cryptic, acronym-laden debate invoking protocol and precedent.2007, Bidoun: A Quarterly Forum for Middle Eastern Talent:
- What, and be buried in wikilawyering designed to keep actual subject matter experts out and leave wp safely in the hands of the wikieditor cliques?2012, Graham Nye, “Four killed in US when train hits float carrying veterans”, in uk.railway (Usenet):