'''Don't be dense'''. If people abided by this, other policies would flow naturally and be intuitive.
"Don't be dense" is the basic underlying message of every editorial and meta-policy in a social space. All rules are an attempt to define the boundries of density.
Although there is a vast amount of space on the Wikimedia servers, it is still insufficient to provide a detailed accounting of density and its various flavors (Stupidity, obstinance, [[Don't be a dick|dickery]], utter lunacy). Suffice it to say that if, after explaining your point in twelve different ways, most of your fellow editors still seem to think you're not making sense, the dense will reiterate their point a thirteenth time, while others will contemplate changing their mind.
The nature of density is such that the dense are rarely aware of their density, and so it is probably more helpful, albeit more frustrating, to explain the specific problem to a dense user rather than simply citing this policy and assuming they'll figure it out.
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