[WikiEN-l] Page freezing on "good" articles

[Ilya N.]

That's not exactly in the spirit of wiki

On 10/27/05, Fastfission <fastfission at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There was a lot of talk not too long ago about possibilities of
> protecting certain high-profile articles which are reasonably "good",
> in order to prevent various forms of content degredation which happen
> even with well-meaning editors, much less from vandals and the
> problems which come up in problematic reverts, etc.
>
> Is there a designated place to discuss this sort of thing?
>
> In my mind, it would make sense to have some sort of "Vote for
> Freezing" page for articles of this sort. It would be almost the
> opposite of something like VfD -- an advanced form of FAC, whereby
> people would vote (and ply some attention on) as to whether an article
> was good enough to qualify it for this sort of enshrinement. "This
> article is good enough that it doesn't need people to be able to edit
> it constantly without discussing changes first," the status of
> "frozen" would imply. Some standards would need to be developed (a FA
> which has already run on the main page, another round of peer review,
> no major rewrites in the past two months, etc.) but it could work out
> (hopefully). Requests for Unfreezing could be done as well for those
> who think that an article was problematically frozen in a state which
> would require more than just the sorts of line edits one can do from a
> talk page.
>
> So anyway, I'm not caught up on the latest status of this debate, but
> I think something of this sort might be a good idea, and prevent the
> sort of incoherence that sneaks into even good articles over a long
> period of time.
>
> (And before anyone points out that this would make it hard for new
> users to edit such articles -- that would be the *point* of such a
> policy, not an unintended consequence. And it would, ideally, focus
> users away from such articles and onto the legions which still need
> basic work).
>
> FF
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