Tony Sidaway wrote:
On 6/7/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Be bold has always been about articles right back to the first edits in the recorded history.
That simply isn't true. You cited the earliest version on the talk page and even that referred to "be bold in updating pages". 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.
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. Spreading that kind of ignorance really wouldn't be good for Wikipedia.
There are a lot of old timers that don't spend a lot of time writing aor editing policies. They don't have time to deal with the mind fucking experience of arguing with policy hawks. The practical approach for them is to wait until they are personally affected by the policy in question before participating in the discussion.
Ec