[Wikipedia-l] Re: Lir and Christopher Columbus

[Daniel Mayer]

On Monday 21 October 2002 03:17 pm, Ortolan88 wrote:
> I'll suggest this again.  Banning a contributor forces some authority
> figure to decide who is right and wrong.  Why not freeze the topic
> instead?  

But then which version gets frozen? Choosing one over the other is taking 
sides so that shouldn't be a reason why a page gets frozen. Page freezing 
should only be done when somebody is trying to hijack a page and therefore 
starts an edit war - which IMO is a form of highly-directed vandalism that 
saps user recourses. But this should only be uses as a last resort.

>There is no hurry to complete any topic, but edit wars are
> fueled by adrenaline and adrenaline doesn't last.  

I agree. We would have to change some wording on the Main Page that would make 
us look not as open though....

> ....

-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)