[WikiEN-l] DNA article

Thu Feb 19 00:49:57 UTC 2004

Today the DNA article has an interesting status:

It's on Featured Articles

It's protected (and properly says it is) because of edit wars.

It's on the list of requests for removal from Featured Articles.

The sysops and the committees have a whole lot of work and don't need 
more, but I wonder if a consensus might be possible on this: Any article 
that's showing a dispute-header is presumed to be a poor advertisement for
the high quality of Wikipedia and must not be Featured until the problem 
is solved.

Would it be too dangerous if some level-headed people were authorized to 
remove such an article immediately from the list without waiting for the 
complete process at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates
?
Of course the action would be noted in the necessary places, such as F_a_c
itself. The idea is just that action could be taken without a barrage of 
complaints about exceeding authority and bypassing process, if we granted 
this authority in advance. 

I suggest giving the authority to people holding the status of Bureaucrat,
for which I hereby second Uncle Ed's nomination. 