[WikiEN-l] A narrower concept of boldness

[The Mangoe]

On 6/22/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> The main reasoning behind BOLD is the fact that it's easy to undo any
> mistakes. That holds for (most) administrative actions as well as
> basic editing, so why wouldn't BOLD apply?

But the problem is that it isn't that easy. 3RR gives whoever makes
the first change an advantage: their opponent will get hit by the rule
first. Being BOLD in policy is a major cause of The Wrong Version,
because it's likely that disputes will get the text locked in the
changed version.