[WikiEN-l] A narrower concept of boldness

[The Cunctator]

On 6/7/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/7/07, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 6/7/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > No it does not.
> >
> > Asserting something doesn't make it so. What is so different about
> > templates that we should not be encouraging people to go ahead and
> > correct problems when they see them, and instead discouraging from
> > editing the templates at all?
> >
>
> Fallacy of the excluded middle
>
> Be bold has always been about articles right back to the first edits
> in the recorded history. In the case of templates the cost of getting
> things wrong can be rather higher (The job queue length is currently
> 366,759). Remeber just because you think you have spoted a mistake
> doesn't mean there is one.

You are incorrect. Being bold has been about policy as well.