From: Magnus Link <ruhrjung(a)yahoo.de> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org> Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 09:24:49 +0200 (CEST) To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] semi-permanent protection of (very) contentious articles Is it maybe soon time to make a little modification to Wikipedia's policy on protection, to allow contentious articles to be long-term protected - in order to stimulate the use of talk pages instead of edit wars? The article on Gdansk is once again protected. Of course it's the wrong version that's fixated for some time now. Not only the wrong version in my personal view, but the wrong version from the perspective of numerous serious attmpts to solve the conflict in accordance with Wikipedia customs. The character of the long-standing conflict is not much different from that of the recently discussed Pinochet article. Maybe the chief difference is that it does not touch the interest of the English speaking world, and therefore attracts not much attention from the Wikipedia community. However, many contributors have put much time and effort into the dispute solving process; and as being one of these contributors I start to feel that all that energy is badly rewarded. /M.L. Mit schönen Grüßen von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l