Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-36677645-20200114234419/@comment-32545704-20200116015549

Regarding edits to older articles, this is not really a new rule, it's only now being explicitly clarified. However it is worded, I believe the spirit of the rule is to give inexperienced users, who are making bad edits but in good faith, a "safe" environment to practice editing on current articles where admins and experienced editors are more active and likely to pick up on any errors. Bad edits on older articles are more likely to slip through the net unnoticed, and this would be bad for the accuracy of the wiki. This seems to me quite a reasonable tool for admins to have at their disposal.

I don't believe there is any intention to stop experienced and trusted editors like yourself from editing older articles, I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong about that.

The rule on categories is also nothing new, they were always considered part of the site structure (like the navigation menu), not as content.