[WikiEN-l] A narrower concept of boldness

[InkSplotch]

On 6/6/07, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>

I sometimes think there are quite a few policies that might work better if
reduced entirely to their "nutshell" version.

InkSplotch
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