[WikiEN-l] A narrower concept of boldness

[Skander -]

MediaWiki has this nice thing called a "revert button", which makes boldness
not harmful in any way. How else do you want to keep Wikipedia's open spirit
and anti-elitism? The power of wiki's is that anyone can edit anything and,
most importantly, can revert anything, so boldness should be encouraged. If
something is done against consensus "per WP:BOLD", who cares, revert it and
discuss. WP:BRD.

-Salaskan

2007/6/21, David Goodman <dgoodmanny at gmail.com>:
>
> 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.
>
> On 6/18/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 18/06/07, Eagle 101 <eagle.wikien.l at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Ignore all Rules is common sense written into policy.  The concept
> behind it
> > > (at least to me) is that if ignoring the rules help you improve the
> > > encyclopaedia (and that is your intent when you ignored the rules),
> there is
> > > a decent chance that you are doing something right, even if it does
> not meet
> > > our policy XYZ, section 3, subsection c. How it is to be used is
> another
> > > matter, when ignoring the rules you probably have a decent rational
> behind
> > > why doing so improves the encyclopaedia, otherwise its hard to justify
> > > should someone ask. Merely shouting IAR when you don't like a
> particular
> > > rule is not useful. But if you ignore the rules and the net benefit is
> to
> > > the encyclopaedia (yes that thing we are trying to build ya know ;) )
> then
> > > its likely a useful action (edit whatever).
> > > Ignore all rules is intended to be hard to pin down, to avoid
> codifying how
> > > to ignore all rules ;).
> >
> >
> > Let me pimp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:PRO once more.
> >
> >
> > - d.
> >
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