[WikiEN-l] A narrower concept of boldness

[Tony Sidaway]

On 6/6/07, Todd Allen <toddmallen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> Not sure that's a bad change, really. Being bold in updating policies or
> other people's user pages tends to get your hand slapped, as will being
> bold in refactoring someone else's comments on talk pages, and changes
> to templates and the like should be done with a -lot- of care and by
> people who know what they're doing.


Well, as for editing policy, I *always* make a bold edit and explain
it on the talk page.  It's a very successful method in my experience.
If you look like you know what you're doing, and the change is
reasonable and well explained, there seldom any problems.