On 6/29/05, JAY JG jayjg@hotmail.com wrote:
From: Michael Turley michael.turley@gmail.com
The blocking feature makes newbie biting much easier, which is not a good thing.
The only newbies who get bitten by this are ones who are abusing policy (and other editors).
Page locking makes enforcing a single POV easier, which is not a good thing.
*All tools have a proper use, and all tools can be used abusively.*
Yeah, in theory. But rollback is ideally suited for edit warring, and newbies would take full advantage.
Jay.
Rollback is *ideally suited* for reverting vandalism. Perhaps it is equally suited for edit warring, but if it were *more* suited for edit warring than its intended purpose, I'm pretty sure it would have been written out of the software by now.
The proposal floated does not include offering rollback ''carte blanche'' for newbies.
It proposes a system similar to WP:RFA where the feature would have to be requested and approved by consensus.