Wikipedia:Bold-refine

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This page in a nutshell: Clarifies a method of collaborative drafting that helps contributors and writers to craft good articles, while building consensus and trust through demonstration of competence. Seeks consensus to replace WP:BRDR as a recommendation, and proposes a preventive strategy favoring Refinement and enables wp:Bold wp:obversion, in order to overcome unjustified wp:reversions.

The Bold-Refine process is the ideal collaborative writing cycle, which seeks WP:Consensus § Through editing in continuously improving multiple drafts, with informative edit summaries which are dialectical responses to challenges or errors pointed out by deletionists who revert. A writer who persists through editorial reversions by obverting them, may use the edit summary field to meet the requirement of discussion, instead of or prior to "talking" on the talk page. The writer should accompany their argument with multiple drafts of wikitext itself, progressively refined in response to competent editorial input. Also called Bold-Refine-Deliver, because the emphasis is on final goal of Delivering a continuously improving WP:ENCYCLOPEDIA to the readers, while refining ourselves as scholars and learners who read what each other writes. Every editor should be reader-student first: someone who enjoys learning, and researcher-writer second: someone who is willing to teaching what he or she knows.