[Foundation-l] breaking English Wikipedia apart

[Fred Bauder]

> 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

I can see where this ends: biased editors in control; no discussion, no
appeal, disagree and you're history.

Fred