[WikiEN-l] Per-article blocking (was: Article quality deterioration)

[Poor, Edmund W]

Michael Snow calmly and firmly intoned:

> An incremental approach of taking people off particular 
> articles is less 
> drastic and leaves them free to make more helpful edits 
> elsewhere. Those 
> that are particularly attached to their material would have a 
> powerful 
> incentive to retrain themselves, since we don't have time to be their 
> writing tutors. However, if someone gets asked off of a number of 
> articles, then at some point we would need to look at asking 
> them not to 
> edit any more. Incidentally, I would still very much like to see a 
> per-article blocking feature.

I've heard that the developers have already written the "programming
code" needed to implement per-article blocking. They are just waiting
humbly for a clear consensus to emerge before putting into service.

How do we indicate a consensus for this? Do we vote, or what?

Ed Poor
(somewhere in vacation-land)