[WikiEN-l] A narrower concept of boldness

[Ray Saintonge]

David Goodman wrote:

>As for BOLD, I have never seen it cited for good ends; most good
>editing doesn't need it. It is usually used as the attempted
>justification for edits against the consensus. Personally I'd rather
>remove it from the guidelines altogether, but it is referred to so
>many times that perhaps it should be written in a way that would make
>it less likely to be misused. I see there's an active discussion
>there.
>
Being bold does not require anyone to be stubborn.  It allows people to 
try something different, but if that stirs up a firehose of protests you 
need to know when to cut your losses.

Ec