On 6/7/07, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/7/07, The Cunctator <cunctator(a)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=36790…
"The Wikipedia community encourages users to be bold in updating articles. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Be_bold&oldid=77331…
"The Wikipedia community encourages users to be bold in updating articles."
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Be_bold&oldid=10257…
"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".