stickling

Rice’s situation — the stickling intruder bent on curtailing the freedom of action customarily enjoyed by denizens of a backwater — may be nothing new to readers of suspense fiction, but Rice himself is full of surprises.

"It is just about stickling to your systems and trusting in the bubble you are in."

This is seen in their way of stickling for accuracy when others repeat familiar word-forms.

The film, which was made largely with a $20,000 grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, spends time showing what has been lost to Wikipedia because of stickling rules of citation and verification.

Call it by another name, then—if you prefer stickling about terms.