On 6/23/05, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
Blanking doesn't seem very helpful at all when the page needs to be protected. All you need to do is make up a fuss between enough users and you can disrupt wikipedia until there's no tomorrow. Besides, no one can edit a blanked article into something else the parties might accept.
Obviously good sense is applied to determine if someone is just trying to create a disruption to cause a blanking, such a judgement is already used for protection.
And protected pages shouldn't be edited, blank or not. Of course the history is available, and the discussion can take place on the talk page... where all sides will be encouraged to participate because their preferred version is not on top. :)