[WikiEN-l] A narrower concept of boldness

Steve Bennett stevagewp at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 06:34:35 UTC 2007


On 6/6/07, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb at gmail.com> wrote:
> One user boldly decided to move the [[WP:BOLD]] essay to a more
> restrictive title to imply that boldness should only be exercised in
> article space.
>
> I don't know if anybody else sees the complete irony of performing an
> action which changes the guideline in such a way that the action being
> performed falls outside the guideline (read that until you understand
> the paradox) so I moved it back.

That is ironic. Being bold applies equally well to policy, project or
whatever pages. Whatever is broken, wherever it is, fix it.

Of course the critical bit is, "if people don't like your fix, being
bold is not a defence".

Steve



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