[WikiEN-l] A narrower concept of boldness

[Thomas Dalton]

On 22/06/07, The Mangoe <the.mangoe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Perhaps admins should be encouraged to revert the article to whatever
state it was in before the edit war started before protecting it. That
would give the article a clean start and let the changes be made more
constructively.