On 6/7/07, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@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