Karl A. Krueger said:
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The problem here is that it depends on someone listing the article as a
controversial article on some other page. Presently, I suspect there
are a lot more edit wars than ever get listed on WP:RFC or any other
repository for problems. Moreover, I think we might not even know
where many of those problems are, because waiting for people to report
them publicly is no guarantee they ever get reported.
Yes. Well, a way around this is to identify templates that are highly
likely to be associated with an edit war, and put those templates into a
category, which would result in controversial articles appearing in the
category. Using the same mechanism on the category would give you another
view of possibly explosive articles.
Wikis are designed to be open and flexible so it's unlikely that any
single mechanism will ever be able to identify all controversial articles
without fail. Adopting the UNIX standard of "works in most cases" is good
enough, because other users will adopt other methods to identify the
controversial articles. --~~~~