[WikiEN-l] A narrower concept of boldness

[Mark Gallagher]

G'day 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.

This shows a major misunderstanding of 3RR, BOLD, and The Wrong Version 
(although you may have been ironic with that last one).  I'm not, 
however, surprised.


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Mark Gallagher
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