At 05:48 AM 10/11/2004 -0700, Poor, Edmund W wrote:
We should clearly indicate that the consensus version
is just a
MILESTONE along the path of article development. We should remind our
readers that any article can be edited any time, and that newer versions
of this article are likely to appear.
Ooo, I like that! Simply changing the name from "stable version" to
"milestone" conveys a whole new sense of what this special version of the
article is - not something that's fixed and unchanging, but rather
something that's been clearly identified as a good waypoint along the
article's never-ending journey towards the unattainable Perfect Version.
Terminology is important, it sets the tone of discussion and creates "first
impression" assumptions that mold how people consider the issue. I'm going
to use "milestone" from now on, unless an even better name comes along.