On 6/7/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/7/07, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
? That's from 2003.
Yes. I haven't finnished digging though the history yet but:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Be_bold&oldid=367906... "The Wikipedia community encourages users to be bold in updating articles. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Be_bold&oldid=773310...
"The Wikipedia community encourages users to be bold in updating articles."
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Be_bold&oldid=102578...
"The Wikipedia community encourages users to be bold in updating articles."
So over a range of sereval years WP:BOLD has only been about articles.
Yup. I'm not disputing that. I'm telling you what the reality was Way Back When. A number of contretemps I had with Larry Sanger in 2001-2002 were about by whom, where, and how policy should be written.
Being bold used to be about everything.
I'm not even saying it's bad that policy has firmed up / ossified.
I'm just saying the claims that "Nah be bold has always been a lot more timid than certain people appear to think (hasn't mattered for the most part since most people only edit articles)." and the more extreme claim "Be bold has always been about articles right back to the first edits in the recorded history" aren't true. Or at least they're misleading unless we admit that recorded history doesn't begin consistently until late 2002.
So I won't necessarily dispute "Be bold has been about articles since late 2002".