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)