Today the DNA article has an interesting status:
It's on Featured Articles
It's protected (and properly says it is) because of edit wars.
It's on the list of requests for removal from Featured Articles.
The sysops and the committees have a whole lot of work and don't need more, but I wonder if a consensus might be possible on this: Any article that's showing a dispute-header is presumed to be a poor advertisement for the high quality of Wikipedia and must not be Featured until the problem is solved.
Would it be too dangerous if some level-headed people were authorized to remove such an article immediately from the list without waiting for the complete process at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates ? Of course the action would be noted in the necessary places, such as F_a_c itself. The idea is just that action could be taken without a barrage of complaints about exceeding authority and bypassing process, if we granted this authority in advance.
I suggest giving the authority to people holding the status of Bureaucrat, for which I hereby second Uncle Ed's nomination.