Tomos: I offer some reasons to think twice before you act on. But I do not mean to be highly critical of your idea.
SV- How about one very long thought? And I never made any generalizations about extremist behaviour on the WP. Just a bias... like a car with bad alignment, that you have to compensate for a pull in a lateral direction.
Some would say "Wikipedia is not" a place to discuss politics.
Let them speak all the baseless nonsense they want; politics is inherent to nearly every endeavor involving 2 or more people. Where do you stand Tomos? Avoid flame wars? I wonder how this is possibly done, and by what species on Earth this is done by? Its nobodys job to not offend nyone.... -(read that again.) Its our job to engage in building articles up which represent the truth, and not just a part of it.. I think this also carries over into how these articles are organized... and how balanced overall their representation of material there is.
Im curious - you included a link to a Lir issue... *perhaps* suggesting an outcome for those who "cant get along". This smells either like a threat, or a misconception about where these issues are bound to lead, and how they are bound to be resolved. Thats a lot of *prophesy for a seemingly benign link on a mailing list. -SV