Jake Waskett said:
Ok, Jimbo, you're right. Let me amend my earlier statement: on the whole, the system is working, but in a few articles, it is not. Now, the question is this: what can be done about the problem?
One solution that I favour is to have permanent protection on targetted pages, and have a nominated admin apply changes that are agreed upon by vote on the article's talk page.
What do others think?
Wikipedia doesn't work by voting, but by trusting people. In particular, you must never use a vote to decide whether something is NPOV. If some people abuse that trust, we should deal with those people, not the articles. The vast majority of our editors can be trusted to decide which articles to edit and not treat Wikipedia as if it was a collection of Usenet groups. We should try to let them get on with it. Giving some articles special treatment is probably not the way to go, in my opinion.