Tony Sidaway wrote:
I
dispute any suggestion that protection of a page is in any way *less*
drastic than blocking a user. If a page is protected, *nobody* can
edit it. If one or two over-enthusiastic revert warriors are blocked
for up to a day, only their potential edits are lost--and since they're
likely to be holding up editing by their reverts, their loss is often a
very good thing.
If an editor has something to add that is not related to the war it
will still be just as valid afte the lock-up period has ended. Very
little is of such immediate importance as to not survive the
application of a little patience.
And the editors who do not hang around because of some petty usenet flame
war being inappropriately conducted on a wiki...?