On 22/06/07, The Mangoe <the.mangoe(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/22/07, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)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.