[WikiEN-l] A narrower concept of boldness

[geni]

On 6/7/07, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway at gmail.com> wrote:
> That simply isn't true.  You cited the earliest version on the talk
> page and even that referred to "be bold in updating pages".

Then limits itself to talking about articles.

>There is
> a lot of sense to saying "be bold, but don't be reckless" and then
> explaining how important it is to get template edits right.

Not really. With templates the correct advice is "be careful".


> Ironically the only effect of this artificial distinction  is that old
> timers like us will buzz around just editing policy pages, templates,
> process pages and whatnot whenever we see something that needs to be
> fixed, and the poor newbies will be left sitting around scratching
> their heads and wondering why we're allowed to get away with it.

Or destroy you.

> Spreading that kind of ignorance really wouldn't be good for
> Wikipedia.

Not ignorance. Just the only rational way a project the size of
wikipedia can be run. Can't rely on people knowing each so we fall
back on them following broadly similar processes

-- 
geni