With the idea technical measures of banning certain users from certain articles, I think Ed's right on the money. Ed's sensible enough to know that he might not be able to stay neutral on global warming, so he doesn't edit articles related to this. There's some topics on which I'm the same. But for those users who don't know any better, I think this would be an apt solution. I know it's already been done in certain cases by the ArbCom, but I'd like to see it in greater use and perhaps (if it was to become a technical measure) able to be acted upon by any sysop (though of course, with stringent guidelines to avoid abuse). The idea of banning IPs from editing certain articles, I believe, would be very wise as well.
- ambi
On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:16:50 -0600, Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
This is one remedy the arbitration committee has been applying to dedicated POV warriors. Not always, it is not policy itself, just a way to deal with determined violaters of NPOV and other policies. But it could be policy. However it may prove difficult to separate editors who insist on the integrity of the article, like Adam Carr, from editors who insist on a biased article.
Fred
From: "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 07:47:14 -0700 To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] POV Pushers (was: The "months later" effect)
Issue #2: Can we exclude certain users from editing certain articles? (How about starting on a small scale as an experiment: let admins "ban" NON-SIGNED-IN contributors, i.e., IP's, on a per-article basis -- and see how this works out. The [[Prem Rawat]] series would benefit.)
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