[Wikipedia-l] Freezing articles

Sat Sep 7 09:06:26 UTC 2002

On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 11:06:19PM -0400, The Cunctator wrote:
> Freezing discussion shouldn't really be necessary...freezing articles
> is a reasonable concept.

The trouble with freezing articles in an edit war is that the frozen
article will be in one state or the other - that is, someone will have
'won' the editing war.

So far, sysops have not been reluctant to intervene in arguments in
which they have been involved themselves.

-M-