[WikiEN-l] DNA article
Dan Drake
dd at dandrake.com
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.
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