On 6/6/07, Todd Allen <toddmallen(a)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".
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Stephen Bain
stephen.bain(a)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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