On 6/6/07, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/6/07, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
Not sure that's a bad change, really. Being bold in updating policies or other people's user pages tends to get your hand slapped, as will being bold in refactoring someone else's comments on talk pages, and changes to templates and the like should be done with a -lot- of care and by people who know what they're doing.
People who do that are typically misunderstanding what "be bold" means.
It's reminding people that since Wikipedia is a wiki, they shouldn't ignore or complain about something when there's clearly a problem, but get in there and fix it. It doesn't mean "do whatever the hell you feel like".
The nutshell is pretty good: if it's broke, fix it. The part that people don't get is the implicit "if it might not be broke, ask someone else before you fix it".
-- Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com
I sometimes think there are quite a few policies that might work better if reduced entirely to their "nutshell" version.
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