[Foundation-l] breaking English Wikipedia apart

[Andre Engels]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> That's precisely the problem. Being able to remove the right to edit BLPs
> from a user, irrespective of whether they have been uncivil etc., just
> based on the nature of their edits, is the only thing that will solve it.
>
> Knowing that this is a potential outcome will also, surely, lead to better
> and more careful BLP editing than we have today.

Would not have helped, since this conflict was over the biography of a
person who has been dead for over 1000 years.

Why single out BLPs for such a treatment, and why the need to move
them to a separate place? All that is needed is a sufficient number of
good, trusted editors that get the right to make judgements of the
kind "Mr. A is not allowed to edit on subject X any more, and can be
reverted and/or blocked if he does."

-- 
André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com