On 6/17/06, John Lee johnleemk@gawab.com wrote:
This is something of a perennial proposal. The main problem I see with it is the potential for edit conflicts - if a valid edit goes through between when the probationary edit is made, and when it is approved, there might be trouble merging the two edits together.
In such a case I suggest sending the conflicting (probationary) edit back to the original editor (as a talk page message), and letting them deal with it. Remember, people in this state have already done something annoying...the onus is now on them to do something about their reputation.
Steve