On 6/22/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
My original thought was to allow edits to Talk (and
user and project)
space but not article space - like protection in reverse. It would
reduce the number of protected articles, because where there is an
edit war we just confine the warriors to Talk for a while until
they've hammered out their differences.
There would definitely be huge complaints of favouritism in such cases
("how come me and my friend are blocked, but his friend isn't?!!").
That's probably no worse than the current situation.
The real downside of these kind of approaches is that as you find
methods of resolving problems that affect less and less people, there
is less impetus to get those problems actually resolved. That is,
protect [[GWB]], and people will kick up a fuss until the page is
unprotected. Ban some small player from some minor article - rightly
or wrongly - and it may be a while before anyone gets around to
unbanning him.
Steve