On 6/7/07, Tony Sidaway <tonysidaway(a)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