On 6/22/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
My original thought was to allow edits to Talk (and user and project) space but not article space - like protection in reverse. It would reduce the number of protected articles, because where there is an edit war we just confine the warriors to Talk for a while until they've hammered out their differences.
There would definitely be huge complaints of favouritism in such cases ("how come me and my friend are blocked, but his friend isn't?!!"). That's probably no worse than the current situation.
The real downside of these kind of approaches is that as you find methods of resolving problems that affect less and less people, there is less impetus to get those problems actually resolved. That is, protect [[GWB]], and people will kick up a fuss until the page is unprotected. Ban some small player from some minor article - rightly or wrongly - and it may be a while before anyone gets around to unbanning him.
Steve