On 8/1/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
Would it be worth creating a new, more limited kind of block, where they are just forbidden to touch main-space article pages? If they were complete jerks, we could still use a normal block, of course. But creating the softer option of semi-protection worked well, and I'm thinking a softer kind of block would be a similar step forward.
This is one of the older ideas that's been drifting around WP for years. Trouble is, we don't have the developers to work on this problem. This isn't like policy; we can't be bold and write it. Oh, technically we can, except most of us lack the technical prowess to do it, and those who have it are already working on MediaWiki.
FWIW, though, (which may not be very much), I completely support this idea. It's a real necessity.
Johnleemk