When jumping in to suggest how this violated Wikipedia guidelines, note that this predates WP's current Policies and guidelines page (1, 2010) and the COPO essa

When jumping in to suggest how this violated Wikipedia guidelines, note that this predates WP's current Policies and guidelines page (1, 2010) and the COPO essay describing core content policies (2, Nov. 2007). The Five Pillars page has changed quite a bit since 2007.[3] My favorite change, and only slightly tangential to the topic, is replacing this from 2007: > [[Wikipedia:Be bold|Be '''bold''' in editing, moving, and modifying articles]], because the joy of editing is that, although it should be aimed for, [[Wikipedia:Editing policy|perfection is not required]]. And do not worry about messing up. All prior versions of articles are kept, so there is no way that you can accidentally damage Wikipedia or irretrievably destroy content. But remember — whatever you write here will be preserved for posterity. with this in the current policy: > [[Wikipedia:Be bold|Be bold]], but not [[Wikipedia:Reckless|reckless]], in updating articles. And [[Wikipedia:Editing policy|do not agonize over making mistakes]]: they can be corrected easily because [[Help:Page history|(almost) every past version of each article is saved]]. An unintentionally accurate transition in how it felt to participate then and now, subtly excising any mentions of the joy of publicly but safely messing up and replacing them with assurances that you and your contributions can simply be erased from history if you make any mistakes. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines&oldid=370614864 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Policie... 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Core_content_policies&oldid=172597077 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Core_co... 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Five_pillars&diff=cur&oldid=138580428 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Five_pi...