[WikiEN-l] A narrower concept of boldness

[Charlotte Webb]

On 6/7/07, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
> Holding a poll on "Be bold" doesn't strike me as particularly
> productive.  So in the spirit of the guideline, I jumped in and
> rejigged it a bit, retaining the sense of the guideline but not making
> it so one-sided.  Although special considerations do apply to
> templates and categories, these are covered by "don't be reckless", so
> there's no real need to have an artificial division, at least not to
> the extent that we have to say "Be bold in updating article", when
> really the guideline applies, with a very few exceptions which are
> usually fully protected from editing, to every page on the wiki.

And I forgot to mention the depth of irony of voting on an issue like
this. Protracted discussion and polling on this guideline grossly
violates the spirit of the guideline being discussed and voted upon.

—C.W.