If you read Brion's message carefully, you will realize that the concept
of stable versions he refers to in the present system are commonly
called "protected pages". I trust you have heard of those.
--Michael Snow
One thing I don't like is people trying to ram new policies down our
throats in the pretext that "they're already there" or "they won't
cause
significant change". There is currently nothing like stable versions at all
on Wikipedia. What's commonly called protected pages are pages which are
protected for vandalism, etc. I have never so far seen a page protected just
because it is a complete article. That is, protected pages are not a article
quality tool, but rather an anti-vandalism structure. And they should be
kept that way.
Sure, stable versions would use the same system as protected pages - the
problem I have is with their function, with the concept of protecting
"completed articles", not with the way in which the software is coded for
them.
Ronline