On 6/7/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/7/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
That simply isn't true. You cited the earliest version on the talk page and even that referred to "be bold in updating pages".
Then limits itself to talking about articles.
There is a lot of sense to saying "be bold, but don't be reckless" and then explaining how important it is to get template edits right.
Not really. With templates the correct advice is "be careful".
"Be bold, but don't be reckless". Although I've never really thought of myself as a huge template editor, a look at my contributions shows that I've made a score of edits to templates in the past month or so. Every single edit, needless to say, was bold.
Ironically the only effect of this artificial distinction is that old timers like us will buzz around just editing policy pages, templates, process pages and whatnot whenever we see something that needs to be fixed, and the poor newbies will be left sitting around scratching their heads and wondering why we're allowed to get away with it.
Or destroy you.
There are lots and lots of us bestriding the wiki these days. I don't see any signs that the walls are crumbling and about to fall on us all just because we can't be bothered to fill in the "permission to make an edit" form.