[WikiEN-l] A narrower concept of boldness

[Stephen Bain]

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.

People who do that are typically misunderstanding what "be bold" means.

It's reminding people that since Wikipedia is a wiki, they shouldn't
ignore or complain about something when there's clearly a problem, but
get in there and fix it. It doesn't mean "do whatever the hell you
feel like".

The nutshell is pretty good: if it's broke, fix it. The part that
people don't get is the implicit "if it might not be broke, ask
someone else before you fix it".

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com