|content-class: urn:content-classes:message |X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 |X-MS-Has-Attach: |X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: |Thread-Topic: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Lir and Christopher Columbus |Thread-Index: AcJ6CXDAg7Yp0ILET6iftbmJzR5anAACBr1A |From: "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor(a)abc.com> |X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Oct 2002 21:36:24.0399 (UTC) FILETIME=[11F45DF0:01C27A13] |Sender: wikipedia-l-admin(a)nupedia.com |Reply-To: wikipedia-l(a)nupedia.com |Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 17:36:24 -0400 | |This is a multi-part message in MIME format. | |------_=_NextPart_001_01C27A13.11D3D4AA |Content-Type: text/plain; | charset="iso-8859-1" |Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable | |We want to keep good people like Zoe, dave (dograt), et al. BUT we don't = |want to overdo this banning thing. |=20 |Maybe we should revive the idea of a partial ban:=20 |* Contributor blocked from editing articles -- stops the edit war |* But can still edit talk pages -- which keeps dialogue open |=20 |To maintain impartiality, I propose that parties to the conflict get at = |least one other contributor, who is not involved in the conflict, to = |agree. In other words, if I'm fighting with Jacob about "Palestinian = |Territories", I should not block him -- but Lee (if he agreed Jacob was = |being anti-Wikipedian) could step in and block him. |=20 |What do people think about a Selective Block? How would things have been = |different if we had done this with any of the following? |* 24 |* Helga (H. Jonat) |* DW |* Lir |=20 |Ed Poor I missed 24, but in every other case there was a single article or an easily identifiable set of articles that were the locus of the trouble. Freezing those articles for a day, week, month, quarter, might have solved the problem. Helga- Copernicus DW - Canadian noteworthies Lir - Columbus Did we so much need an article this quarter on these three topics that we could tolerate the kind of abuse (let's don't mince words) that these people dealt out? As for the "one other contributor" this is what I had in mind with my "master in chancery" proposal, not "police", just someone to filter the conflict before it got into an article. Tom Parmenter Ortolan88