Erik wrote:
Wikipedia policy pages can be openly edited by anyone, as they could always be.
Edit, yes, change the meaning, no. Anybody can edit a policy page to correct typos, misspellings or to make a good faith effort to clarify policy per established consensus.
An editor /cannot/ unilaterally change policy. But I have no opinion on whether or not you did that since I haven't looked over the changes yet.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
Daniel-
An editor /cannot/ unilaterally change policy.
An editor (everyone is an editor on Wikipedia, so you might as well say "a user") can change policy pages if there are no objections to them doing so. They should use common sense to determine whether their change would require prior discussions, or be reasonably minor or non-controversial not to. The same principle applies to edits of non-policy pages. Be bold in updating policy pages.
Regards,
Erik
--- Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com wrote:
Erik wrote: Edit, yes, change the meaning, no. Anybody can edit a policy page to correct typos, misspellings or to make a good faith effort to clarify policy per established consensus.
Imho, Erik (not unilateral) change qualifies at a "good faith effort to clarify policy" :-)
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