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(a)gmail.com>om>:
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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 18/06/07, Eagle 101
<eagle.wikien.l(a)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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