Wikipedia:You can't squeeze blood from a turnip
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You can't squeeze blood from a turnip. – Anonymous
You can't get something out of someone who simply doesn't have it to give.
If a
standard remedy
exists for an editor who has done something wrong and the editor shows no sign of regretting the mistake, then go ahead and apply the standard remedy.
Extreme gestures of
policies
and rebuffs appropriate overtures. Some troublesome users do not want to change and the community's energies are limited.
Indeed, you really can't squeeze blood from a turnip.
See also
- Wikipedia:Keep it down to earth
- Wikipedia:Disruptive editing
- Wikipedia:Call a spade a spade
- Wikipedia:AGF is not a suicide pact
- Wikipedia:Sanctions