I suggested the idea that people (even devrs) can be banned from editing a particular page. Even if its only a soft-security ban -- allowing sysops to revert the page if either one of the banned polarist prevaricators edits the page.
~S~
A brief respite certainly has merit, but is not a solution by itself.
The greater problem is the absence of a dispute-resolution culture and process. Most Wikipedians are more interested in being right than being facilitative, and those who visit a disputed article are often more interested in making some of their own edits to get the article "right," or in making a clever comment on the talk page, than in helping others get along and ensuring fairness.
Louis