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Lauren Bacall (1924–2014) was an American actress. One of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood, she was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute, and received an Academy Honorary Award in 2009 in recognition of her contribution to the Golden Age of motion pictures. Bacall made her acting debut on Broadway in 1942 at the age of 17, and her final role was as a guest voice appearance in 2014. During her long career, she won seven major awards: one Oscar, one Critics' Choice Award, two Golden Globes, one Screen Actors Guild Award, and two Tony Awards. This photograph, taken by Bernard Gotfryd circa 1979, shows Bacall with the manuscript of her first autobiography, Lauren Bacall by Myself, at the offices of the publishing house Alfred A. Knopf.Photograph credit: Bernard Gotfryd
Why boldness is critical
5Pillars "Wikipedia does not have firm rules besides the five general principles presented here. Be bold in editing, moving, and modifying articles. Although it should be aimed for, perfection is not required. 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."
- I have learned a lot about the balance between being bold and being inadvertantly disruptive lately. The difference is effectiveness, inadvertant disruption doesn't work, when I have crossed this boundary by accident, the result is that the process stops for everybody. My clue that a boundary approaches is that the consensus process gets slower and more difficult. I want to be effective, there is no gain or usefulness from being disruptive, so if my bold editing style is inhibiting our editing, please let me know this. It does happen.
- Boldness is critical, and this is why it is so highly valued in 5P. Disruption is only transient, a shock wave that soon passes, but a lack of boldness creates insipid articles that may persist for long periods of time. A lack of boldness is a far more serious threat to WP than is any disruption, which is merely annoying and will soon end. A lack of boldness threatens WP with mediocracy at best - and irrelevance at worst. The quest for a balanced boldness is one to be encouraged. Raggz (talk) 04:55, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BRD
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