Stirling Newberry wrote:
I feel the more "automatic" we make the
process of "raising a red
flag" on an article, the more it will be done rather than edit warring
it out.
Something like this would help a great deal, I think. I've been in a
few disputes where I was pretty certain that if the wider community was
aware of the dispute, my position was pretty obviously the way to go,
but the problem was that I was fighting with the very small group of
people who cared about the page, who had very particular views. A
common way to resolve this in the past has been emailing wikien-l (or
the appropriate language list) asking people to take a look at the
article, but as Wikipedia gets bigger this method doesn't scale very
well, and also tends to result in a lot of content discussion on the
list that should really be on the talk pages.
-Mark