Yeah–I was trying to find out what the difference to "good faith" is, and from a bit of googling, it appears to be an attempt to sell the old concept with a new name?
I somehow prefer "good faith", even though it's meaning is harder to parse when you first hear it. The 'faith' does a better job of hinting at the emotional component of the concept.
Oh come on — you are violating AGF in guessing about the "attempt to sell…". It's far more likely that this "assume positive intent" idea and post is just by people who were unaware of AGF as an existing principle. Follow AGF and just help point them and everyone here to the worked out Wikipedia concept. No need to assume bad faith of the people writing "assume positive intent"!
This is 100% off-topic and just about WP, but something just occured to me: I wish Wikipedia had a way to make new articles as stubs and mark them as such, so they don't show up on the main page, unless people are logged in and want that. Kinda like "showdead" on HN. Even better, make links to stub articles in other articles not be links either. I can't count the times I wanted to add something, but either didn't know enough about the subject or was too lazy to submit enough on the first try. I don't mean to sound entitled, but lowering the bar for "casuals" would be great, if it could be done in a way to not diminish quality (i.e. it would still have to be stubs about something that belongs in WP according to the rules, but not necessarily stubs of good quality). It's a bit disheartening to be shot down by deletionists who aren't even willing to give it some time.. if it can dishearten stubborn me I'm sure it disheartened a lot of people over the years, and who knows what articles could have been grown from tiny kernels by now.
Hah — when I read "This is 100% off-topic" I assumed you were making a completely absurd 100% wrong point about "this" being the AGF link from the parent comment. But you meant "This [following stuff I'm writing about]…"
It is SO easy to misread things, which is one of many reasons that AGF is so important a principle.
