Wikipedia:They're not the wallet inspector
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 | This page in a nutshell: Assuming Good Faith does not require editors to embrace child-like naivety. |
According to the policy on what assuming good faith is not:
"This policy also does not mean you should ignore clear evidence of disruptive behavior or violations of site guidelines or accept all edits without question."
The existence of a tenuously-plausible interpretation of an editor action should not blind other editors to the far-more-likely bad-faith or careless interpretation of the editor action that clear evidence referred to above points to.
Put more colloquially, the existence of the possibility that there might be real wallet-inspectors who do really go around inspecting wallets, should not blind you to the far more likely possibility that the person claiming to be a wallet-inspector does not in fact intend to hand your wallet back to you after they have "inspected" it.